relationship to nature, while, in the “person” of the corporate state, he wages unremitting and active warfare against God and claims the prerogatives of God. The orthodox Christian must assert, however, that, because God created man, this statist dream is a myth: it cannot be realized. Man is created in the image of God, and man is either a covenant-keeper or a covenant-breaker. As a covenant-breaker, man is in bondage to sin and to death; having no peace with God because of his sin, man has no