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There was a place in Reformed theology for natural law and natural theology right from the beginning of the Reformation, keeping in mind, of course, what the Reformers and their successors shrewdly held, and which some modern interpreters have overlooked, that there is a vast difference between what is natural in an unfallen world and what is natural after the fall. What was natural in Eden was a manifestation of the goodness and benevolence of God, and therefore of his grace in that sense. What is “natural” since the fall is spoiled and corrupted through sin, and bereft of divinely given strength.