with him, that God has blessed us; and its nature is spiritual, every spiritual blessing, a phrase which may well mean ‘every blessing of the Holy Spirit’, who as the divine executive applies the work of Christ to our hearts. As Charles Hodge put it, ‘These blessings are spiritual not merely because they pertain to the soul, but because derived from the Holy Spirit, whose presence and influence are the great blessing purchased by Christ’.8 It is partly this trinitarian reference which has made