that Owen will focus on, for it is a “mutual communication in giving and receiving, after a most holy and spiritual manner, which is between God and the saints while they walk together in a covenant of peace, ratified in the blood of Jesus.”16 Before moving on, however, it must be stressed that Owen’s aim in this study of communion with God is that God our Father—who has rescued us through the blood of his own Son and by the “riches of his own grace,” recovering us “from a state of enmity into a