![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.](/assets/img/quote-photos/as-god-delights-in-his-own-beauty-he-must-necessarily-delight-in-the-creatures.jpg)
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