John Ray was an English naturalist who made significant contributions to botany and zoology. His innovative taxonomies of plants and animals shaped both fields moving forward. Ray also wrote numerous religious texts. In his 1691 The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation, Ray argued that the complexity and wonder of the natural world demand the existence of a creator. Although the argument from design (or teleological argument) predated Ray by millennia, appearing in the writings of Christians and non-Christians alike, Ray’s work contributed to a surge in its popularity. An entire field known as “physico-theology” soon emerged, aiming to demonstrate the necessary connection between design in nature and a divine designer. This is the fourteenth edition of Ray’s text.