The restored man is reconciled to nature, and as such he is set apart not from earthly life or from natural principles, but from the fallenness of the world. He is a stranger to this world because he is reconciled to nature, not because grace has elevated him above nature. He is restored to the true way, which runs contrary to the false way; and the principles of the true way are nothing but those original to Adam. A Christian is a foreigner in relation to fallenness—to a world in “bondage to decay” (Rom. 8:21)—but fallenness itself is foreign to nature.
