work out your own salvation] That is, empoly, all your abilities, and endeavours to approve, and practise all the means, which God hath appointed for the accomplishment of your salvation, 2 Corinthians 7:1. Finish your sanctification in the feare of God. with fear] Fear and trembling are not here opposed to spirituall confidence, but to carnall securitie; and imply no more then a holy reverence, humiltie and carefulnesse, (Psalms 2:11. Hebrews 12:28.) as Fulgentius speaketh, ne superbt amittamus quod indigni accepimus. Fear we may, and must out of the consideration of our own infirmitie: yet alwaies trust and be confident in God, who worketh in us both the will and the deed; by whose power we are kept through faith to salvation, 1 Peter 1:5.