Why Men Require Government II: Their Moral State

Chapter IV, paragraph 2: "After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, after His own image; having the law of God written in their hearts, and power to fulfil it: and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject unto change. Beside this law written in their hearts, they received a command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which while they kept, they were happy in their communion with God, and had dominion over the creatures."

Chapter VI, paragraphs 1 and 2: "Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body."

Man was created as originally innocent but fell into sin. If government was part of the original created order--as we saw yesterday, God governs his creation, and man was given dominion over the creations to govern them--how much more necessary is it when sin is introduced and disrupts the relationships between God and men and between men?