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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

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

THE LIFE DEATH AND ACTIONS OF THE MOST CHAST learned and Religious Lady the Lady IANE GRAY Daughter to the Duke of SVFFOLKE CONTAINING FOVRE 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 MATH 5. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God London printed by G. Eld for Iohn wright and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate at the signe of the Bible 1615. THE LIFE DEATH and actions of the most chast learned and Religious Lady the Lady Iane Gray Daughter to the Duke of Suffolk containing foure principall discourses written with her own 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 SOme worthy parcels or excellent Essayes of the 〈◊〉 ●…ough to be imitated vertues of that most admirable wise learned and religious Lady the Ladie Iane Gray Daughter to the Duke of Suffolke and vnfortunate wife of the Lord Guilford Dudley sonne to the duke of Northumberland comming in an old auncient Printed Copie vnto my hands as it were halfe forgotten in the world or like a curious monument whose well-carned figures and rare architecture the dust and Cobwebs had iniuriously defaced I could not out of Charitie and Christian loue to a mirrour of such excellence but with my best Art and industry pollish and clense a perfection so Noble Holy and worthy all good mens imitations and as it were to awaken the sleepie world from her fantasticke Lethargie to behold in that which we call the weaker sexe a strength matchlesse and inuincible A Saba that had so oft heard the wisedome of Salomon that ten thousand of our Salomons may come now to be instructed at this Saba Briefely a Lady in all goodnes so perfect that whosoeuer could gaine but some part of her shadow might haue inough in these latter dayes to boast and ranke themselues with the best that are called vertuous so flatteringly are attributes cast vpon the liuing and so maliciously slander vpon the dead To returne then to my discourse you may by that which hath been formerly spoke of her birth and marriage Iudge the greatnesse of her bloud and place both which were farre ouer shined by her vertues as shall bee declared hereafter she was born in England and there brought vp in learning and religion with that prosperous and deuout painfulnesse that as seede cast vpon the best and most fruitfulst ground she brought forth her increase in such aboundance of infinits that the least of her excellencies were impossible to bee circumscribed for proofe whereof that euery iudgement may stand stedfast in the opinion of her perfection I will here deliuer vnto you an Epistle of her owne penning sent to a noble friend of hers in the Court of England being in those daies of persecution fallen from the truth of Gods holy word for feare of the world in which you shall find so much learning chariti● and diuine readings that by this one Talent onely this princely Eagle may be truely discouered how potent and vnmatchable the great substance of so rich a vertue is An Epistle of the Lady Iane Grayes to a Noble friend of hers newly falne from the Truth SO oft as I call to minde deare friend and chosen Brother the dreadfull and fearefull sayings of God that he which layeth hold vpon the plow and looketh back againe is not meet for the kingdome of heauen And on the other side to remember the comfortable words of our Sauiour Christ to all those that forsaking themselues do follow him I cannot but maruell at thée and lament thy case that thou which somtimes wert the liuely member of Christ but now the deformed impe of the diuell sometimes the beautifull temple of God but now the stinking and filthy kenell of Sathan sometimes the vnspotted spouse of thy Sauiour but now the vnshamefast paramour of Antichrist somtimes my faithfull brother but now a stranger Apostata yea sometimes a stout christian soldior but now a cowardly runaway So oft as I consider the threatnings and promises of the diuine Iustice to all those which faithfully loue him I cannot but speake to thée yea rather cry out and exclaime against thée thou séed of Sathan and not of Iuda whom the Diuell hath deceiued the world hath beguiled and desire of life hath subuerted and made of a Christian an Infidell Wherefore hast thou taken vpon thée the Testament of the Lord in thy mouth wherefore hast thou hitherto yéelded thy body to the ●ir● and to the bloudy hands of cruel tyrants wherfore hast thou instructed others to be strong in Christ when thou thy selfe dost now so horribly abuse the testament and Law of the Lord when thou thy selfe preachedst as it were not to steale yet most abhominably stealest not from men but from God and as a most hainous sacrilegious robber robbest Christ thy redéemer of his right in his members thy body and thy soule when thou thy selfe dost rather chuse to liue miserably with shame in this world then to die gloriously and raigne in honor with Christ to the end of all eternitie in whom euen in death there is life beyond wish beyond all expression And when I say thou thy selfe art most weake thou oughtest to show thy selfe most s●rong for the strength of a fort is not knowne before the a●●…ult but thou yeeldest like a faint Captaine thy hold before any battry be brought against thée Oh wretched and vnhappy man what art thou but dust and ashes and wilt thou resist thy maker that formed and fashioned thée wilt thou now forsake him that called thee from custome-gathering among the Romish Antichristians to be an Embassador and messenger of his eternall word he that first framed thée and since thy creation and birth preserued thée nourished thée and kept thée yea and inspired thee with the spirit of knowledge I cannot I would I could say of grace shall he not possesse thee darest thou deliuer vp thy selfe to another being not thine owne but his How canst thou hauing knowledge or how darest thou neglect the law of the Lord and follow the vaine traditions of men And whereas thou hast been a publique professor of his Name become now a defacer of his glorie I will not refuse the true God and worship the inuention of man the golden Calfe the whore of Babylon the Romish religion the abhominable Idol the most wicked Masse wilt thou torment againe rent and teare the most precious bodie of our Sauior Christ with thy bodily and fleshly téeth without the breaking whereof vpon the crosse our sins and transgressions could els no way be redéemed wilt thou take vpon thee to offer vp any sacrifice vnto God for our sinnes considering that Christ offorod vp himselfe as S. Paul

saith vpon the Crosse a liuely sacrifice once for all Can neither the punishment of the Israelites which for their Idolatry so oft they receiued moue thee neither the terrible threatnings of the ancient Prophets stirre thée nor the crosses of Gods own mouth feare thée to honor any other God then him wilt thou so regard him that spared not his deare and onely sonne for thée so diminishing yea vtterly extinguishing his glory that thou wilt attribute the praise and honor to Idols which haue mouths and speake not eyes and sée not eares and yet heare not which shall perish with them that made them What saith the Prophet Baruck where he reciteth the Epistle of Ieremie written to the captiue Iewes did he not forewarne them that in Babylon they should see Gods of Gold Siluer Wood and Stone borne vpon mens sholders to cause a feare vpon the Heathen But be not you afraid of them saith Ieremy nor do as other doe But when you see others worship them say you in your hearts It is thou O Lord that oughtest only to be worshipped for as touching the timber of those Gods the Carpenter framed them and pollished them yea guilded they be and laid ouer with siluer and vaine things and cannot speake he sheweth moreouer the abuse of their deckings how the priests tooke off their ornaments apparelled their women therewithall How one holdeth a Scepter another a sword in his hand and yet can they iudge in no matter nor defend themselues much lesse any other from either hatred or murther nor yet from gnawing wormes dust filth or any other euill thing these and such like words speaketh Ieremy vnto them wherby he proueth them but vaine things no Gods and at last hee concludeth thus confounded bee those that worship them They were warned by Ieremie and thou as Ieremie hast warned others and art warned thy selfe by many Scriptures in many places God saith he is a iealous God which will haue all honor glory worship giuen to him onoly And Christ saith in the fourth of Luke to Sathan which tempted him euen to the same Sathan the same Belzebub the same Diuell which hath preuailed against thée It is written saith he thou shalt honour the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue These and such like do prohibit thée and all Christians to worship any other God then he which was before al worlds and laid the foundations both of heauen and earth and wilt thou honor a detestable Idol inuented by the popes of Rome and the vncharitable colledge of politick Cardinals Christ offered vp himselfe once for all and wilt thou offer him vp againe dayly at thy pleasure But thou wilt say thou doest it for a good intent Oh sinke of sinne Oh child of perdition canst thou dreame of any good entent therein when thy conscience beareth thée witnes of the wrath of God promised against thée How did Saul who for that hee disobayed the word of God for a good entent was throwne from his worldly and temporal kingdome shalt thou then which doest so deface Gods honeur and rob him of his right inherit the eternall heauenly Kingdome wilt thou for a good entent pluck Christ out of heauen and make his death voide and deface the triumph of his crosse offering him vp dayly wilt thou either for feare of death or hope of life deny and refuse thy God who inriched thy pouerty healed thine infirmitie and yéelded to this victory if thou wouldst haue kept it doest thou not consider that the thryd of life hangeth vpon him that made thée who can as his will is either tw●…e it hard to last the longer or vntwine it againe to breake the sooner Doest thou not remember the saying of Dauid a notable King which teacheth thée a miserable wretch in his 104. Psalme where he saith When thou takest away thy Spirit O Lord from men they dye and are turned againe to their dust but when thou lettest thy breath go forth they shall be made and thou shalt renew the face of the earth Remember the saying of Christ in his Gospel whosoeuer seeketh to saue his life shall loose it but whosoeuer will loose it for my sake shall finde it And in an other place Who so euer loueth Father or Mother aboue me is not meet for me for he that will be my Disciple must forsake Father and Mother and himself and take vp his crosse and follow me what crosse the crosse of infamy and shame of misery and pouerty of affliction and persecution for his Names sake Let the oft falling of those heauenly showers pierce thy stony heart let the two edged sword of Gods holy word hew a sunder the knit-together sinewes of worldly respects euen to the very marrow and life blood of thy carnall heart that thou maist once againe forsake thy selfe to imbrace Christ and like as good subiects will not refuse to hazard all in the defence of their earthly and temporall Gouernors so fly not like a white lyuerd milke-sop from thy standard whereby thy chiefe Captaine Christ hath placed thée in a noble aray of this life Viriliter ago confortetur cor tuum sustine dominum fight manfully come life come death the quarrell is Gods and vndoubtedly the victory is ours But thou wilt say I will not breake vnitie What No● the vnity of Sathan and his members not the vnity of darknes the agréement of Antichrist and his adherents nay then thou deceiuest thy selfe with fond imaginations of such an vnitie as is amongst the enemies of Christ were not the false Prophets in an vnity were not Iosephs brethren Iacobs sons in an vnity were not the Heathen as the Amelechites the Pheresits and Iebusits in an vnitie I kéepe no order but looke rather to my matter were not the Scribes and Pharisies in an vnitie doth not King Dauid testifie conueniunt in vnum aduersus Dominum yea theeues and murtherers conspirators and Traytors haue their vnitie Marke my deare friend yea friend if thou béest not Gods enemy there is no vnitie but when Christ knitteth the knot amongst such as be his yea bee you well assured that where his truth is resident there it is verified that he saith Non veni mittere pacem in terram sed gladium that is Christ came to set one against another the Sonne against the Father the Daughter against the Mother Deceiue not thy selfe therfore with the glistring glorious name of vnity for Antichrist hath his vnity yet not in déed but in name for the agréement of euill men is not an vnitie but a conspiracie Thou hast heard some threatnings some curses and some admonishments of the Scriptures to those which loue themselues aboue Christ Thou hast heard also the sharp and biting words to those which deny him for loue of life saith hee not that hee which denieth mee before men I will deny him before my Father which is in heauen And to the same effect writeth S. Paul in