As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.


Two Dissertations (ed. 1765)


As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly...

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly...

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly...

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly...