“natural” and the “covenantal,” arguing instead that God now maintains and governs nature precisely through a covenant relationship, specifically the covenant with Noah enacted after the great flood (Gen. 8:20–9:17). The present chapter examines this covenant and how it serves as the means by which God promulgates the natural law and thereby governs the entire human race in its fallen condition. The remaining chapters in Part 1 (Chapters 3–5) fill in and round out the basic conclusions of this chapter