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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12200	The vvonderfull mysterie of spirituall growth Describing the necessitie, nature, manner, measure, and markes thereof. As also, laying downe necessarie rules for the wise discerning of the same. And resoluing many speciall cases of conscience incident hereunto, tending to the comfort of distressed spirits, and so to the attaining of perfect holinesse. Diuided into two bookes.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1622 (1622)	STC 5709; ESTC S114304	141,549	449

THE WONDERFVLL MYSTERIE OF SPIRITVALL GROWTH Describing the Necessitie Nature Manner Measure and Markes thereof AS ALSO Laying downe necessarie Rules for the wise discerning of the same And resoluing many speciall Cases of Conscience incident hereunto tending to the comfort of distressed Spirits and so to the attaining of perfect Holinesse Diuided into two Bookes LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop and are to be sold at his house in Distaffe Lane at the signe of the Dolphin 1622. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE MY very good Lord the Lord Cranfield L. high Treasurer of England Master of his Maiesties Wards and Liueries and one of his Priuie Councell All encrease of Honour and true Happinesse RIGHT HONORABLE AS the Soule is far more ● excellent then the Bodie this being but of the Earth earthly but the other of the Heauen heauenly so whatsoeuer concernes the adorning of the pretious Soule is farre preferred before all bodily furniture and complement whatsoeuer And seeing our wise God though he hath conioyned the Soule and Body to ether to make one perfect Creature yet he hath subiected the Body to the Soule for the perfection thereof therefore herein doth consist the perfection of the Creature when the bodie and the things concerning the same performeth it due homage to the soule and imployeth it best meanes for the adorning thereof which as it cannot doe without the information and actuating of the soule by which it is enliued and therefore ought in all duty and th●nkefulnesse to returne it streames to the fountaine and honour the soule with that power which it receiued from the same so hereby doth it procure true honor to it selfe when it in all things furthers the soule to that end to which it was created Now as the Soule is the life of the Bodie so God is the life of the Soule And as the maine vse and end of the Bodie is to doe homage to the Soule so the end of both soule and bodie is to glorifie God And by how much the bodie more furthers the soule herein by so much more doth it attaine the end of it Creation and so aspires to that glorious estate that this corruptible may put on incorruption and this mortall may be swallowed vp of immortalitie And this is that true happinesse to which man was created as of nothing of himselfe because he was a creature so by nothing in and of himselfe effectuall to this happinesse because hereunto hee must become a new creature in Iesus Christ Indeed the Lord made man righteous at the first and so capable of this happinesse but he sought many inuentions and tooke the forbidden way and so lost the true substance of happinesse while he hunted after the shadow thereof And so it was good for him to be lost in himselfe that he might be found in Christ who is made vnto him Righteousnesse and Sanctification and Redemption that he which reioiceth might reioice in the Lord. Behold the end of our Creation God made all things for his glory Behold the Meanes to accomplish this end Man must be stript of all glorie in himselfe by his fall that being Redeemed by the pretious bloud of Iesus Christ he might wholly consecrate himselfe in all holinesse and righteousnesse to the glorie of his Redeemer as being wholly enabled by the power of Christ hereunto and perfectly accepted by the righteousnesse of his Christ imputed vnto him and led forward by the free grace of God in Iesus Christ to the finishing of his saluation in the feare of God as hauing all things working together to the best vnto him and being kept by the mightie power of God through faith vnto saluation This is the subiect of this Treatise This the maine vse thereof euen to teach a Christian wherein consists his true happinesse namely in Christ and not in himselfe and to informe him how to trie himselfe whether he be in Christ or no namely if he grow vp in Christ which is his Head vnto a perfect stature And this also is an vndoubted triall that all outward encrease is sanctified vnto vs namely if it further our Spirituall Growth in Christ that we may lay vp a good foundation thereby against the life to come The reasons why I haue consecrated these Meditations to your Honours Protection Are first Because the Lord hauing aduanced your Honour marueliously by the great fauour of our Soueraigne to most high and eminent Place and Honour you may hereby lay vp a good foundation against the life to come by honouring the Lord with your greatnesse and kissing his glorious Sonne Iesus in countenancing his Word and patronizing his seruants and worthily opposing the Enemies of the Gospell which through our securitie and remisnesse haue renewed and encreased their hopes in this day of their abasing Surely as it is strange that darkenesse should en●rease in the midst of so glorious a light so it is more then time to labour the speedie dispelling thereof least it obscure more and more our glorious light and in the end banish the same And who more fit to encounter this darkenesse then such glorious starres that are aduanced in the Firmament of our state May it not be said vnto such as Mardokey said to Hester being aduanced in such times who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdome for such a time I hope I shall not neede to adde what Mardokey premiseth If thou hold thy Peace at this time comfort and deliuerance shall appeare to the Iewes out of another place The Lord knoweth how to deliuer his in the day of Tentation and to catch the wicked in their owne snares Blessed be God that as he hath suckled your Honour euen from the cradle with the syncere milke of the Word so no doubt by this time he hath made you a strong man in Iesus Christ and as he hath furnished you with all outward meanes for the maintenance of the Truth so he will enable you by his grace to improue your Place and Authoritie more and more hereunto that so you may grow vp more and more as well in fauour with God as with men and stablish your outward greatnesse by encrease in goodnesse and care to aduance the Kingdome of our Lord Iesus And this I shall not cease daily to pray vnto our good God for humbly entreating your Honour to accept of my poore endeuours hereunto who as heretofore for many fauors so now especially much more shall rest bound vnto your Honor for this Protection And so commending your good Lordship to the euerlasting tuition of the Almightie I rest euer in him At your Honours and the Churches seruice Th. Cooper An Introduction hereunto To the Christian Reader IT is more then high time Beloued in our Lord Iesus that wee should in these euill daies prouide against a storme by casting vp our accounts and cleering our euidences in the fauour of God seeing we haue had such tender thereof a long time in so gre●t Measure and varietie and by