Chapter 27: Of the Communion of Saints
1._____ All saints that are united to Jesus Christ, their head, by his
Spirit, and faith, although they are not made thereby one person with him,
have fellowship in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory;
and, being united to one another in love, they have communion in each others
gifts and graces, and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public
and private, in an orderly way, as do conduce to their mutual good, both
in the inward and outward man.
(
1
John 1:3; John
1:16; Philippians
3:10;Romans
6:5, 6;Ephesians
4:15, 16;1
Corinthians 12:7;1
Corinthians 3:21-23;1
Thessalonians 5:11, 14;Romans
1:12; 1
John 3:17, 18; Galatians
6:10 )
2._____ Saints by profession are bound to maintain an holy fellowship
and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual
services as tend to their mutual edification; as also in relieving each
other in outward things according to their several abilities, and necessities;
which communion, according to the rule of the gospel, though especially
to be exercised by them, in the relation wherein they stand, whether in
families, or churches, yet, as God offereth opportunity, is to be extended
to all the household of faith, even all those who in every place call upon
the name of the Lord Jesus; nevertheless their communion one with another
as saints, doth not take away or infringe the title or propriety which
each man hath in his goods and possessions.
(
Hebrews
10:24, 25;Hebrews
3:12, 13;Acts
11:29, 30;Ephesians
6:4;1
Corinthians 12:14-27;Acts
5:4;Ephesians
4:28 )
Chapter 28 "Of
Baptism and the Lord's Supper"
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