But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Ver. 10. Peace] Safety here and salvation hereafter.
To every man that worketh good] Yet not for his work's sake, because no proportion between the work and the wages; no more than between in a nutshell. That wretched monk therefore died blasphemously, who said, Redde mihi aeternam vitam quam debes, Pay me eternal life, that thou owest me. And how dare Bellarmine say, that good works are mercatura regni caelestis, the price we pay for heaven? or that other Papist, God forbid, that we should enjoy heaven as of mere alms to us: no, we have it by conquest. Strange impudence!