The Wonderful Mystery of Spiritual Growth, Conclusion
The Concluſion of the Treatiſe, with promiſe of further light.
Thus haſt thou (beloued in Chriſt) ſome further fruite of Gods patience and mercy towards me his vnworthy and vnprofitable ſeruant concerning this wonderfull Myſtery of spirituall Growth: My humble requeſt is, that thou wouldſt ſeriouſly conſider of the ſtrange diſtractions and confuſions of the time, wherein hee that refraines himſelfe, makes himſelfe a prey. And then I hope as thou haſt great cauſe to bleſſe God for any light that ſhineth in ſo great darkenes, ſo thou wilt patiently beare with whatſoeuer obſcurities and defects may appeare in theſe meditations, and ſo further mee with thy prayers vntounto the throne of Grace, that theſe fogges being diſpelled, and darke clouds paſſed ouer, we may ſee more cleerely into the great myſtery of Chriſt, and ſo therein, of our spirituall Growth in him. Promiſing thee ſhortly ſome further light to direct thee herein, as God ſhall miniſter leyſure and abilitie.
And ſo I commend thee to the power of Gods Grace, whereby thou maiſt be kept from falling away with this preſent euill world, and ſo preſerued blameleſſe in the midſt of a froward generation, to ſhine as a light in a darke place, and to continue conſtant and immoueable in the worke of the Lord, watching for the conuerſion of the Iewes, and vtter downfall of Antichriſt, and ſo maiſt be prepared as a Bride vntounto the Bridegroome, euen to the glorious appearance of our Lord Ieſus. And euen ſo come Lord Ieſus, come quickely, In whom I reſt
The poore brother ready in all things to further thy reckoning. Th. Cooper.
FINIS.
End of the text · Thomas Cooper, The Wonderful Mystery of Spiritual Growth (1622)