John Trapp on Colossians 3:16
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Colossians3:16
Verſe 16. Dwell in you richly] Indwell in you, as an ingraffed word, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. incorporated into your ſouls: ſo concocted and digeſted by you, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. as that you turn it in ſuccum & ſanguinem, into a part of your ſelves. This is your riches: and thus David reckons of his wealth, Pſ. 119.31.
Teaching and admoniſhing one another] It is rightly obſerved by a late reverend Writer,D. Sibbs on Cant. 5. That although we know that which we ask of others, as well as they do: yet good ſpeeches will draw us to know it better, by giving occaſion to ſpeak more of it; wherewith the Spirit works more effectually, and imprints it deeper, ſo that it ſhall be a more rooted knowledge then before. For that doth good, that is graciouſly known; and that is graciouſly known, that the Spirit ſeals upon our fouls.
In Pſalms and hymns]Dinnius. Papiſts forbid people to ſing Pſalms, and permit only Quiriſters to ſing, leſt the muſick ſhould be marred. But the Apoſtle biddeth every Saint to ſing. And Nicephori[illegible: 1 letter]s writeth,Hiſt Eccleſ.l. 3. sap. 37. that the Chriſtians of his time, even as they travelled and journeyed, were wont to ſing Pſalms. Tatianus alſo faith, That every age and order among the Chriſtians were Chriſtan Philoſophers: yea that the very virgins and maids, as they ſat at their work in wool, were wont to ſpeak of Gods Word.
With grace in your heart] This is the beſt tune to any Pſalm.
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