Industry
Illustration★★★God’s Delight in Man’s, J persuade myself that the bountiful and gracious Author of man’s being and faculties, and all things else, delights in the beauty of his crea tion, and is well pleased with the industry of man in adorning the earth with beautiful cities and castles, with pleasant villages and country houses, with regular gardens and orchards, and plantations of all sorts of shrubs, and herbs, and fruits, for meat, medicine, or moderate delight; withshady woods and groves, and walks set with rows of elegant trees; with pastures clothed with flocks, and valleys covered over with corn, and meadows burthened with grass, and whatever else differenceth a civil and well-cultivated region from a barren and desolate wilderness.
— Ray
Ray.
The point
A reflection arguing that God delights in human industry and creativity — cities, gardens, orchards, and cultivated fields — as expressions that beautify His creation.