man; these Calvin calls “natural gifts,” which, though not lost, have been partly weakened and partly corrupted by sin.55 In an important passage in his Commentary on Psalm 8 Calvin indicates what are some of these traces of the image of God that are still found in fallen man. Commenting on the words “Thou hast made him little lower than God,” Calvin says that the Psalmist must have in mind the distinguished endowments which clearly manifest that men were formed after the image of God.… the reason