A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...

§. 105. Christs doing things upon just cause.

FRom the forementioned union of Christ and Saints, the Apostle maketh this in∣ference, For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. Because He and Saints were of one, he called them brethren.

This note of inference, For which cause, sheweth, that Christ would do what he had cause and reason to do. Christ being sent to save that which was lost (Mat. 18. 11.) and to give his life a ransom for many (Matth. 20. 28.) For this cause he would not desire to be freed from that hour, Ioh. 12. 28.

For this cause he acknowledged before Pontius Pilate that he was a King, Iohn 18. 37. For this cause Christ confessed to God among the Gentiles, Rom. 15. 9. For this cause is he the Mediatour of the New Testament, Heb. 9. 15.

Were we of this minde, how many excellent works, much tending to Gods glory, our own and others good, would be willingly performed, which are now wholly omitted? Most are so farre from being of Christs minde herein, as they do the things that are evidently without cause. They transgresse without cause, Psal. 25. 3. David much complaineth of wrongs done to him without cause, Psal. 35. 7. & 69. 4. & 109. 3. & 119. 78, 161. Christ maketh such a complaint, Iohn 15. 25.

Let us advisedly and seriously consider, what cause there is for us to do such and such things, and as there is cause, do them.