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A20907	The life, death and actions of the most chast, learned, and religious lady, the Lady Iane Gray, daughter to the Duke of Suffolke Containing foure principall discourses written with her owne hands. The first an admonition to such as are weake in faith: the second a catechisme: the third an exhortation to her sister: and the last her words at her death.; Epistle of the ladye Jane to a learned man of late falne from the truth of Gods word	Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Feckenham, John de, 1518?-1585. aut	1615 (1615)	STC 7281; ESTC S119400	15,132	26

of the best words and phrases together who can haue that possible dulnesse of spirit in him as not to conclude and beléeue that her birth her education and all the naturall inclinations of her own Spirits were sutable agréeing with that best goodnes which how sildome extant yet is euer expected in all noble personages for indéed Gentry it selfe is but vertue and all dignity added to Gentry doth but as it were baptize it with a more renowned Title of the most excellent vertue in which stile this Ladie might take a large boast and instead of Caesars veni vidi vici Of her may be said she was Noble Chast and Religious But some ouer-curious to examine goodnesse may reply vnto me that her honour was her Ancestors and not the worke of her fundamentall institution therefore not altogether so glorious that her sober and chast life was either a singular guift from aboue or a tormenting feare of the shame of this world continually stird vp in her blood through the discourse of readings or examples and that her religion being traduc'd from the instructions of her first Parents and seconded by the learned Admonitions of them of the same opinion her minde as it were beeing vtterly vnacquainted with any other contrary Argument but euer foothed vp and fort●fied in one path onely that it was no great worke either of maruaile or maistery that she continued either so good constant or violent in the heate of her zealousnesse whereas if shee had heard the continuall temptations of the aduersarie and beene enforced to haue held a long battell with men esteemed profound in a quite opposite opinion or had beene burthened with the heauy and tyrannous yoake of authority which by intollerable afflictions would haue not onely threatned the bending but the breaking of her heart and bowels if shee had not yeelded to the wil of their opinions then for her brauely to haue held out such a weary siedge and with a setled constancy to haue vndergon and triumphed in such a Christian warfare had not only beene memorable but rare matchlesse and renowned To let passe the two first suggestions being sleight and not worthy the labour of any serious Pen because no doubt ought to be made where there is a probable assurance and to come to this last inference touching her temptations being so great and heauy that they came neare to the point of Martyrdome you shall vnderstand that after her most vnfortunate marriage and the vtter defaiture almost of her name and honors others ambitions hauing embarqued her into those rough waues which of necessity must swallow her as you may at large read in the whole story of our Chronicles diuers learned Romish Catholikes and euen those which were of the best fame and reputation were sent vnto her to disswade her from that true profession of the Gospell which from her cradle she had euer held each striuing by art by flattery by threatnings by promise of life or what else might mooue most in the bosome of a weake Woman who should become master of so great and worthy a prize but all their labours were bootlesse for she had art to confound their art wisedome to withstand their flatteries resolution aboue their menaces and such a true knowledge of life that death was to her no other then a most familiar acquaintance In the end a deepe-read Diuine called M. Feckenham then Chaplaine to Queene Mary was sent vnto her about some foure dayes before her death who had with her a long and tedious disputation but as the rest found himselfe in all holy gifts so short of her excellence that he acknowledged himselfe fitter to bee her Disciple then Teacher And thervpon humbly besought her to deliuer vnto him some briefe summe of her Faith which hee might hereafter keepe and as a faithfull witnesse publish to the world to which shee willingly condiscended and bad him boldly question her in what points of religion so euer it pleased him and she would giue her faithfull and beleeuing answere such as shee would euer bee ready to seale with her dearest blood The summe of which conference you shall heare read as it was written with her own hand and her name subscribed therevnto as followeth A conference Dialogue-wise held betweene the Lady Iane Dudley and M. Feckenham foure dayes before her Death touching her Faith and Religion Feck VVHat thing is required in a Christian Iane. To beleeue in God the Father in God the Sonne in God the Holy Ghost three persons and one God Feck Is there nothing else required in a Christian but to beleeue in God Iane Yes We must beleeue in him wee must loue him with all our heart with all our soule and all our minde and our Neighbour as our selfe Feck Why then Faith iustifieth not nor saueth not Iane. Yes verily Faith as S. Paul saith onely iustifieth Feck Why S. Paul saith if I haue all the Faith of the world without loue it is nothing Iane. True it is for how can I loue him I trust not or how can I trust in him whom I loue not Faith Loue euer agree together and yet Loue is comprehended in Faith Feck How shall we loue our Neighbour Iane To loue our Neighbour is to feed the hungry cloth the naked and to giue drinke to the thirsty and to do to him as we would doe to our selues Feck Why then it is necessarie to saluation to doe good workes and it is not sufficent to beleeue Iane I deny that I affirme that faith onely saueth But it is méet for all Christians in token that they follow their Master Christ to doe good works yet may we not say nor in any wise beléeue that they profit to saluation for although we haue done all that we can yet wee are vnprofitable seruants and the faith we haue onely in Christs blood and his merits saueth Feck How many Sacraments are there Iane Two the one the Sacrament of Baptisme and the other the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Feck ●o there be seuen Sacraments Iane By what Scripture finde you that Feck Well wee will talke of that hereafter But what what is signified by your two Sacraments Iane By the Sacrament of Baptisme I am washed with Water and regenerated in the Spirit and that washing is a token to mee that I am the Child of God The Sacrament of the Lords Supper is offered vnto me as a sure Seale and Testimonie that I am by the blood of Christ which hee shed for me on the Crosse made partaker of the euerlasting Kingdome Feck Why what d●e you receiue in that bread d ee you not receiue the very body and bloud of Christ Iane No surely I doe not beleeue so I think● at that Supper I receiue neither flesh nor bloud but onely Bread and Wine the which bread when it is broken and the wine when it is drunke putteth mee in minde how that for my sinnes the body of Christ was broken and

his bloud shed on the crosse and with that bread and wine I receiue the benefits which came by breaking of his body and by the shedding of his bloud on the Crosse for my sinnes Feck Why but Madame doth not Christ speake these words Take eate this is my body can you require any plainer words doth he not say that it is his body Iane I grant he saith so and so he saith likewise in other places I am the Vine I am the Doore it being onely but a figuratiue borrowed speech Doth not S. Paul say that he calleth those things which are not as though they were God forbid that I should say that I eate the very naturall body and bloud of Christ For then either I should plucke away my Redemption or confesse their were two bodies or two Christs two bodies the one body was tormented on the Crosse and then if they did eate another body ●ow absurd againe if his body was eaten really then it was not broken vpon the Crosse or if it were broken vpon the Crosse as it is doubtlesse then it was not eaten of his Disciples Feck Why is it not as possible that Christ by his power could make his body both to be eaten and broken as to bee borne of a woman without the seed of man and as to walk on the Sea hauing a body and other such like myracles which he wrought by his power onely Ian. Yes verily if God would haue done at his last supper a myracle he might haue done so but I say he minded nor intended no worke or myracle but onely to breake his bodie and shed his bloud on the Crosse for our sinnes But I beseech you answere me to this one question where was Christ when he said Take eate this is my body was not he at the Table when he said so hee was at that time aliue and suffered not till the next day Well what tooke hee but bread And what broke hee but bread And what gaue hee but bread Looke what hee tooke hee brake and looke what hee brake hee gaue and looke what hee gaue that did they eate and yet all this while hee himselfe was at Supper before his Disciples or else they were deceiued Feck You ground your Faith vpon such Authors as say and vnsay both with a breath and not vpon the Church to whom you ought to giue credit Iane No I ground my Faith vpon Gods word and not vpon the Church for if the Church bee a good Church the faith of the Church must bee tryed by Gods word and not Gods word by the church neither yet my faith Shall I beléeue the church because of antiquitie or shall I giue credit to that church which taketh away from mee a full halfe part of the Lords Supper and will let no lay-man receiue it in bath kinds but the Priests only themselues which thing if they deny to vs they deny vs part of our saluation And I say that it is an euil and no good Church and not the spouse of Christ but the spouse of the Diuell which altereth the Lords Supper and both taketh from it and addeth to it To that Church I say God wil adde plagues and from that Church will he take their part out of the Book of Life you may learne of S. Paul how hee did administer it to the Corinthians in both kindes which since your Church refuseth shall I beleeue it God forbid Fec That was done by the wisedome of the Church to a most good intent to auoid an heresie which then sprung in it Iane. O but the Church must not alter Gods wil and ordinances for the colour or glosse of a good intent it was the error of King Saul and he not onely reaped a curse but perished thereby as it is euident in the Holy Scriptures To this M. Feckenham gaue me a long tedious yet eloquent reply vsing many strong and Logicall perswasions to compell me to haue leaned to their Church but my Faith had armed my Resolution to withstand any assault that words could then vse against mee Of many other Articles of Religion we reasoned but these formerly rehearsed were the chiefest and most effectuall Subscribed Iane Dudley THis catechising argument betwéen the Lady Iane and M. Feckenham was held in the tower publiquely before diuers worthy and noble personages in all which shée bore her selfe with such a modest humility yet so honourably stout in all thinges which either concerned her God her religion that shée rauisht and stole vnto her all the hearts of her auditory while M. Feckenam lost much of that good opinion of his learning which formerly for a long time be had inioyed insomuch that finding his own weaknes his much disability to refell her truths with his scholastical fallacies hée grew into a little choller and vsed vnto her some immodest spéeches most vnsutable for his grauity to which only her smiles and patience gaue answere and amongst the rest comming to take his leaue of her hée said Madam I am sorry for you and your obstinacy and now I am assured you and I shall neuer meete againe it is most true sir that wée shall neuer meet againe except God turne your heart for I stand vndoubtedly assured that vnlesse you repent and turne to God you are in a sad and desperate case and I pray to God in the bowells of his mercy to s●nd you● is holy spirit for hée hath giuen you his great guift of vt●●…ance if it please him to open the eyes of your heart to his truth but at these wordes he rudely departed without further answer while the Saintlike Lady withdrew herselfe into her priuate bedchamber where shee bestowed her selfe in most deuout prayer till the night before her death at what time shée took a faire new Testament in Gréek on which after shée had read a while offering to close vp the book shee found in the end thereof some few leaues of cleane paper vnwritten which as it were awakening and incyting her zeale to some good and charitable office shée took penne and inke and in those wast leaues wrote a most Godly and learned exhortation which as soone as shee had finished it shée closed vp the booke and deliuered it to her seruant to beare vnto her Sister the Lady Katherine as the last token of her loue and remembrance which was with great diligence performed The tenor of the exhortation was this which followeth A exhortation written by the Lady Iane Dudley the night before her death in the end of the new Testament in Greeke which shee sent to her Sister the Lady Katherine Gray I Haue heere sent you my deare Sister Katherine a booke which although it be not outwardly trimmed with gold or the curious imbroderie of the artful'st needles yet inwardly it is more worth then all the precious mynes which the vast world can boast of It is the booke my only best and best loued Sister of the Law of the Lord