Chapter XXVI: Of the Communion of Saints. De Communione Sanctorum.

Of the Communion of Saints. De Communione Sanctorum.
I. All saints that are united to Jesus Christ their head, by his Spirit and by faith, have fellowship with him in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory: [1876] and being united to one another in love, they have communion in each other's gifts and graces, [1877] and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public and private, as do conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.
[1878] I. Sancti omnes, qui capiti suo Jesu Christo per Spiritum ejus ac per fidem uniuntur, gratiarum ejus, perpessionum, mortis, resurrectionis ac gloriæ ejus habent communionem; [1879] atque inde etiam amore conjuncti sibimet invicem mutuam donorum suorum gratiarumque societatem quandam ineunt, [1880] ac ad ejusmodi officia præstanda publica et privata obligantur, quæ ad mutuum eorum bonum conducant, cum quoad internum tum etiam quoad externum hominem. [1881] II. 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; [1882] as also in relieving each other in outward things, according to their several abilities and necessities. II. Qui sanctos sese profitentur, sanctam illi societatem et communionem inire tenentur et conservare, cum in divino cultu, tum alia officia spiritualia præstando, quæ ad mutuam eorum ædificationem conferre possint; [1883] Quin etiam porro sublevando se mutuo in rebus externis, pro ratione cujusque vel facultatum

Which communion, as God offereth opportunity, is to be extended unto all those who, in every place, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.
[1884] vel indigentiæ. Quæ quidem communio, prout opportunitatem Deus obtulerit, est ad eos omnes, qui ubivis locorum Domini Jesu nomen invocant, extendenda. [1885] III. This communion which the saints have with Christ, doth not make them in anywise partakers of the substance of his Godhead, or to be equal with Christ in any respect: either of which to affirm is impious and blasphemous. [1886] Nor doth their communion one with another, as saints, take away or infringe the title or propriety [1887] which each man hath in his goods and possessions. [1888] III. Hæc autem communio qua sancti cum Christo potiuntur, eos substantiæ Deitatis ejus neutiquam reddit participes, nec ullo respectu æquales Christo: Quorum utrumvis affirmare impium est ac blasphemum; [1889] neque sane communio illa, quæ iis secum mutuo quatenus sanctis intercedit; cujusquam ad bona et possessiones suas jus privatum vel tollit vel imminuit. [1890]