11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.



Ver. 11. Now therefore perform] Unless our willing of good be seconded with endeavour, it is nothing worth. Balaam wished well to heaven; so did he that came kneeling to our Saviour with Good master, &c.; but; they stuck at the hardship of holiness, without which there is no heaven to be had; they would not come off here, and therefore got nothing by their short winded wishes. Solomon compares such sluggards to the door that turns on the hinges, but yet hangs still upon them, it comes not off for all the turnings. Their purposes without performances are like a cloud without rain; and not unlike Hercules’ club in the tragedy, of a great bulk, but stuffed with moss and rubbish. Virtutem expotant contabescuntque relicta. (Peri.)