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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 3:5

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Hebrews3:5

5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a Servant , for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after .

The Gospel-Minister, doth not only excel Moses as much as a Builder doth his Work; but as a Son doth a Servant, proved in this, and ver. 6. Your great Legal Prophet, in whom many of you Hebrews trust, Iohn 5.54. did truly and fully reveal and do what God charged him, in ministring his Will to his Church, Exod. 40.16, to 34. He did not diminish from, nor add the least to God's Charge, [non-Latin text not transcribed], Numb. 12.7. As a Minister, Moses was a faithful as any God had, not a Slave or a Drudge, but a free, willing, ingenuous Servant. most intirely and obsequiously addicting himself in that honourable Place and Office of great Trust, to which God called him; a Stewardly-Servant, a Prophet and a Prince, inspecting and ordering all according to God's Will, in all Christ's House and Family, his Church, he is but a Servant.

His faithfulness was evident in his bearing true Witness to the Church, of all God made known to him, that they might not be uncertain of the Truth; even all that Truth, which was more fully and clearly to be spoken by the Prophets after him, and by Christ and his Apostles; but which the Spirit shall speak to them further concerning Christ and his Church in this Epistle, Iohn 5.46. In which is insinuated, that Christ was the Truth himself witnessed to by Moses, who was a Witness of an inferior degree, though in his Work faithful, and conformed unto Christ.

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