The creation of the material universe must have been a source of enjoyment to him. At the end of every day's labor, he declared his satisfaction by pronouncing it good. In the works of creation all his natural attributes were exercised and reflected upon him. His providential government is a continued exercise and reflection upon himself of his natural and moral attributes. If an artist takes pleasure in imitating the works of God, what must have been God's happiness in creating, and what must now be his happiness in sustaining the universe.
Every moral being is in some degree sensible of the pleasures of taste.
There is reason to believe that the taste of God is infinitely refined and exquisite. The great western prairies are his flower gardens. He has scattered a profusion of beauties, not only wherever there are mortal eyes to behold them, but also where no eye but his own beholds them. His happiness must have been still more refined and exquisite in the creation and government of sentient beings, and in the numberless adaptations and contrivances for the promotion of their happiness. The providential care of them must also be a source of continual enjoyment to him.