Chapter XXVIIOf the Communion of Saints
The 1689 text, original spelling
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The 1689 text with original spelling and punctuation, copied and reformatted from CCEL’s microfilm transcription of the 1677 edition. Source: Bible Researcher transcription.
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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, havea fellowship in his Graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory; and being united to one another in love, theyb have communion in each others gifts, and graces; and are obliged to the performance of such duties, publick and private, in an orderly way,c as do conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.
Saints by profession are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services,d as tend to their mutual edification; as also in relieving each other ine 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 relations wherein they stand, whether inf families, org Churches; yet as God offereth opportunity is to be extended to all the houshold 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 orh infringe, the title or propriety, which each man hath in his goods and possessions.