symbolics.dev

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith · Chapter 27

Of the Communion of Saints

API: GET /api/v1/documents/lbcf1689/paragraphs/27.2

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 ina 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 inb Families, orc 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, do not take away, ord infringe the Title or Property which each Man hath in his Goods and Possessions.e

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. aHebrews 10:24–25; 3:12–13
  2. bActs 11:29–30
  3. cEphesians 6:4
  4. d1 Corinthians 12:14–27
  5. eActs 5:4; Ephesians 4:28

Related texts

Side by side, with what differs marked: Westminster, Savoy and the 1689 · Westminster and the 1689 · The 1689 and its first printing, 1677 · The 1689 and the Philadelphia Confession

Cite this

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) 27.2, symbolics.dev/lbcf1689/27.2

Permalink: https://symbolics.dev/lbcf1689/27.2

See a mistake? Report it, with what the printing has.