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 by this made 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 other’s gifts and graces, and are obligated to the orderly performance of such public and private duties as lead to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.[1]

2.  Saints by profession are bound to maintain a holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God and in performing such other spiritual services as advance to their mutual edification; as also to give relief to each other in outward things according to their different needs and abilities to meet them; this communion, according to the rule of the Gospel, though chiefly exercised by the saints in their immediate circle of fellow believers, whether in families, or churches, yet, as God offers 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 does not take away or infringe the title or propriety which each man has in his goods and possessions.[2]