Chap.7g, according to S° M A T T H fi vv. 487 without stop or hinderance. Men maywant oftheir w11 for want of power. Nature may be interrupted ín her course, as it was when the fire burnt not the three Worthies, thewater drowned not Peter walking upon ir, &c. Satan may be croad and chained' up : But who hach recited the Almighty ? whoever waxed fierce againft God and profpered ? Nature could fay, Ill things are ea- Fcb9 4, fie toGod.,and nothing impoible: howbeit for a finite creature PJJ to beleeve the infinite A ttributes of God, he is not able to do it oewrep ; ùvwvvrov: throughly, without fupernaturall grace. xdv. Liius Verse 27. BeholdWe have taken all, &&c.] A great All lure, Poeta a few brokenboats, nets, houfhold fturfe : and Chrift maintained Reta navi is them too : and yet they ask, what fluff we have ? Neither is it re.utas.leacus. without an emphafis, that they begin with a Behold, Behold we have forfaken all, as if Christ were therefore greatly beholden to them, and if the young man were promifed treafure in heaven, doing fo, and fo, then they might challenge ir, they might fay with the Prodigall Give me the portion that pertains ,unto me. Vcrfè a8. Ye Which have followed me in the Regeneration a As ifour Saviour fhould have Paid, to forsake all is not enough unlclle ye be regenerate: So tome fenfe it. Others by Regeneration un- derftand the eftare of the Gospel , called elfwhere a new heaven, and a neW earth, z Pet.3. t 3. the world to come, FHcb. z.5. for Godplants the heavens, and laies the foundation of the earth, that he may fay to Zion, thouart my people. There are that un- derstand by regeneration the generall refurreeion (ofwhich alf force thinkPlato had heard, and therefore held, that in the re vole'. Lion of tomany years men should be just in the fame estate, where- in they were before.) These that follow this latter fenfe, read the text thusby an alteration of points, 7e Which have foflowedre, 'hall, in !heregencration (When the Son of man tall fit in hisglo° ry) fit upon twelve thrones, &c. 7`e shall al(3 fie upon twelve thrones] As fo many Kings. Kings they are here but fomewhat obf-enre ones, as 2frIetchifed-°ch was; but Coati then appear with Christ in glory, far outshining: ór.$ i{ : the Sunne in hisstrength, higher then all the Kings of the earth. Ptaf When Daniel had deícribed the greatneffe and glory of all the four Monarchies of the world, at Tait he comes to (peakof a King dome,which is the grcarcft and mighcieft under the whole heaven, 7. and that is the Kingdom of the Saints of the moll- high. So glo- Dan. r 8° ' rious is their eltate even here :.What fh.allit be thereat that great days:'.
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