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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

It is the Testament and last Will which hee bequeathed vnto vs wretches and wretched sinners which shall leade you to the path of eternall ioy And if you with a good minde reade it and with an earnest desire follow it no doubt it shall bring you to an immortall and euerlasting life It will teach you to liue and learne you to dye It shall win you more and endow you with greater felicitite then you should haue gained by the possession of our wofull fathers lands for as if God had prospered him you should haue inherited his hon●rs and Manors so if you apply diligently this booke seeking to direct your life according to the rule of the same you shall be an inheritor of such riches as neither the couetous shall withdraw from you neither the theefe shall steale neither yet the moathes corrupt desire with Dauid my best Sister to vnderstand the Law of the Lord your God liue still to dye that you by death may purchase eternall life and trust not that the tendernesse of your age shall lengthen your life for vnto God when hee calleth all howers times and seasons are alike and blessed are they whose lampes are furnished when he commeth for as soone will the Lord be glorified in the yong as in the old My good Sister once againe more let mee intreat thee to learne to dye deny the World defie the Diuell and despise the Flesh and delight your selfe onely in the Lord be penitent for your sinnes and yet dispayre not be strong in faith yet presume not and desire with S. Paul to bee dissolued to be with Christ with whom euen in death there is life Be like the good seruant and euen at midnight be waking least when death commeth and stealeth vpon you like a théefe in the night you be with the seruants of darknes found sléeping and least for lack of Oyle you be found like the fiue foolish Virgins or like him that had not on the wedding Garment and then you be cast into darknes or banisht from the marriage Reioyce in Christ as I trust you doe and seeing you haue the name of a Christian as neare as you can follo●… the steps and be a true imitator of your Master Christ Iesus and take vp your Crosse lay your sinnes on his back and alwaies imbrace him Now as touching my Death reioyce as I doe my dearest Sister that I shall be deliuered of this corruption and put on incorruption For I am assured that I shall for loosing of a mortall life winne one that is immortall ioyfull and euerlasting the which I pray GOD grant you in his most blessed hower and send you his all-sauing grace to liue in his feare and to dye in the true Christian Faith From which in Gods Name I exhort you that you neuer swarue neither so hope of life nor feare of death for if you will deny his truth to giue length to a weary and corrupt breath God himselfe will deny you and by vengeance make short what you by your soules losse would prolong But if you will cleaue to him hee will stretch forth your dayes to an vncircumscribed comfort and to his owne glorie To the which glorie God bring mee now and you hereafter when it shall please him to call you Farewell once againe my beloued Sister and put your onely trust in God who onely must help you Amen Your louing Sister Iane Dudley AFter the Lady Iane had finished this exhortation to her sister and sent it away by her seruant there came vnto her two Bishops and other learned Doctors who likewise held with her more then two howers conference striuing with all their powers to haue drawne her to haue dyed in the obedience of their Church and fellowship but found themselues infinitely deceiued for her faith beeing built vpon the rock of Christ was by no worldly perswation or comfort to bee either mooued or shaken so that after the expence of time and the losse of much speach they left her as they sayd a lost and forsaken member but shee as before prayed for them and with a most charitable patience endured their worst censures The next day she was called downe to goe to the place of execution to which shée had prepared her selfe with more diligence then either the malice of her aduersaries could desire or the vigilance of any officer for the discharge of his duty expect and being come downe deliuered into the hands of the Sheriffes they might behold in her a countenance so grauely setled with all modest and comely resolution that not the least hayre or mote either of feare or griefe could be perceiued to procéed either out of her spéech or motions but like a demure body going to bee vmted to her hearts best and longest beloued so shewed she forth all the beames of a well mixt and tempered alacrity rather instructing patience how it should suffer then being by patience any way able to indure the trauell of so gréeuous a iourney with this blessed and modest boldnes of spirit vndaunted and vnaltered she went towards the scaffold till whether through the mallice of some great aduersary or the indiscretion of the officers but the latter is more credible shee incountred vppon the way as shee went the headlesse trunke of her new dead Lord and Husband the Lord Guilford Dudley at that instant returning from the Scaffold to the Tower to bee buried this spectacle a little startled her and many teares were seene to descend and fall vppon her cheekes which her silence and great heart soone dryed and beeing now come vppon the Scaffold after reuerence done to the Lordes and others in Commission turning her selfe round about to the people shee spake these wordes as followeth The Lady Iane Dudleys words vpon the Scaffold before her death MY Lordes and you good Christian people which come to see me dye I am vnder a law and by that law as a neuer erring Iudge I am condemned to dye not for any thing I haue offended the Quéens Maiesty for I will wash my hands guiltles thereof and deliuer to my God a soule as pure from such trespas as innocence from iniustice but onely for that I consented to the thing which I was enforced vnto constraint making the law beleeue I did that which I neuer vnderstood notwithstanding I haue offended almighty God in that I haue followed ouermuch the lust of mine owne flesh and the pleasures of this wretched world neither haue I liued according to the knowledge that God hath giuen me for which cause God hath appoynted vnto me this kind of death and that most worthily according to my deserts how bee it I thanke him hartily that hée hath giuen me time to repent my sinnes heere in this world and to reconcile my selfe to my redéemer whom my former vanities haue in a great measure displeased Wherefore my Lords and all you good Christian people I must earnestly desire you all to pray with me and for mée whilst I am yet aliue that God of his infinite goodnesse and me●cy will forgiue mée my sinnes how numberlesse add gréeuous soeuer against him And I beseech you all to beare mée witnesse that I heere ●re a true christian woman professing auouching from my soule y t I trust to be saued by the blood Passion and merits of Iesus Christ my Sauiour onely and by none other meanes casting farre behinde mee all the workes and merits of mine owne actions as things so farre short of the true dutie I owe that I quake to thinke how much they may stand vp against me And now I pray you all pray for mee and with me and at those words she repeated the Psalme of Miserere mei which done she said Lord saue my Soule which now I commend into thy hands and so with all méeknesse of Spirit and a Saint-like patience she prepared her selfe to the blocke FINIS