The Duty to Study and Love Creation

A great quote from the Puritan Stephen Charnock:

Study God in the creatures as well as in the Scriptures…. The world is a sacred temple; man in introduced to contemplate it, and behold with praise the glory of God in the pieces of his art. As grace doth not destroy nature, so the book of redemption blots not out that of creation…. The least creature speaks to man, every shrub in the field, every fly in the air, every limb in a body; Consider me, God disdains to to appear in me; he hath discovered in me his being and a part of his skill, as well as in the highest. (Quoted in Wallace Marshall, Puritanism and Natural Theology, 72)