Chapter 28
Of the Communion of Saints
- 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;1 and being united to one
another in love, they have communion in
each others gifts and graces,2 and are obliged to the
performance of such duties, public and
private, in an orderly way, as to conduce
to their mutual good, both in the inward
and outward man.3
- 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;
4 as also in relieving each other
in outward things according to their
several abilities and
necessities;5 which
communion, according to the rule of the
gospel, though especially to be
exercised by them, in the relations
wherein they stand, whether in
families,6 or
churches,7 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 property which
each man hath in his goods and
possessions.8
Footnotes:
1. 1Jn
1:3; Jn 1:16; Php 3:10; Ro 6:5-6.
2. Eph
4:15-16; 1Co 12:7; 3:21-23.
3. 1Th
5:11,14; Ro 1:12; 1Jn 3:17-18; Gal
6:10.
4. Heb
10:24-25; 3:12-13.
5. Ac
11:29-30.
6. Eph
6:4.
7. 1Co
12:14-27.
8. Ac
5:4; Eph 4:28.
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