No merits of the saints, yet the godly may draw God's favor on the whole body
The Reformed also refuse to credit the good things that come to us to the merits of the saints, or to ask anything of God through their merits. The saints owed all that they were to divine grace, and so, strictly speaking, they could merit nothing either for themselves or for others.
Yet they do not therefore deny that, by virtue of the communion of saints, the good and godly works that individual members of the Church do by God's grace in some way call down and draw God's blessing and favor on the whole body. Indeed, God sometimes spares the ungodly themselves for the sake of the godly and righteous who live among them, and gives them time and means to repent, just as the Lord declared to Abraham that he would have spared Sodom and Gomorrah if even ten righteous people had been found there.
Latin
L. Nolunt quoque bona quae nobis obtingunt Sanctorum meritis tribui, & per eorum merita quicquam a Deo postulari: quia Sancti, qui totum quod erant gratiae divinae debebant, nec sibi, nec aliis quicquam proprie loquendo, mereri potuerunt. Neque tamen propterea negant, vi communionis Sanctorum fieri, ut bona & pia opera, quae a singulis Ecclesiae membris per Dei gratiam fiunt, benedictionem & favorem Dei, in totum corpus quodammodo provocent, atque alliciant: imo quandoque Deum, hominum piorum & justorum intuitu, impiis ipsis, quibus immixti sunt, parcere, & tempus ac media poenitentiam agendi concedere: quemadmodum Dominus Abrahamo professus est se parciturum fuisse Sodomae ipsi & Gomorrhae, si in ea vel decem homines justi reperti fuissent.