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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20904	An epistle of the Ladye Iane, a righte vertuous woman, to a learned man of late falne from the truth of Gods most holy word, for fear of the worlde read it, to thy consolacion : vvhereunto is added the communication that she had with Master Feckenham vpon her faith, and belefe of the sacraments : also another epistle whiche she wrote to her sister, with the words she spake vpon the scaffold befor she suffered, anno. M.D.Liiii.	Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Feckenham, John de, 1518?-1585.	1554 (1554)	STC 7279; ESTC S1081	10,201	32

possible that Christ by his power coulde make his bodye both to be eaten broken as to be borē of a womā without the sede of mā as to walke on the sea hauing a body other such like miracles as he wrought by his power only Iane. Yesvereli if god wold haue done at his supper a miracle he might haue don so but I say he minded no worke nor miracle but only to breake his bodi shed his blud on the crosse for our sins But I pray you answer me to thys one question wher was Christ whē he sayd Take eate this is my body was not he at the table when he said so He was at that time aliue and suffred not til the next daye well what tooke he but breade and what brake he but bread and what gaue he but breade Looke what he toke he brake and looke what he brake he gaue and looke what he gaue that did they eate and yet al this while he hym selfe was at supper before his disciples or els they were deceiued Feck You groūd your faith vpon suche authors as say vn say both with a breathe not vpon the church to whō you ought to giue credyt Iane. No I ground my faith vpon gods word not vpō the church For if the church be a good churche the faith of the churche must be tried by gods word not gods word by the church neither yet mi faith Shall I beleue the churche because of antiquitie Or shall I geue credit to that church that taketh awai from me that half part of the Lordes supper and wyl let no lai mā receiue it in both kindes but thēselues which thing if they denye to vs thei denie vs parte of our saluation and I say that is an euil church and not the spouse of Christ but the spouse of the diuel that altreth the Lordes supper both taketh from it and addeth to it To that churche I saye God wil adde plages frō that church wyll he take their parte out of the booke of lyfe Do you not learne that of S. Paul when he ministred it to the Corinthians in both kyndes Shall I beleue that churche God forbid Fecken That was done of a good intent of the churche to auoide an heresi that sprōg on it Iane. whi shal the church alter gods wil and ordinaūces for a good intent How did king Saul the lord define with these such like perswasions He wolde haue had me to haue leaned to the churche but it would not be Ther wer many mo thinges wherof we reasoned but these wer the chief Be me Iane Dudley These woordes were spoken openlye After this Master Feckenham tooke his leaue sayinge that he was sorie for her For said he I am sure we two shal neuer mete ▪ Trothe it is quoth she that wee shal neuer mete vnlesse god turne your hart ▪ For I am sure vnles you repent and turne to God you ar in an euyl case and I pray to god in the bowels of his mercie to sende you his holy spirite For he hath geuen you his great gift of vtteraunce if it please him to open the eyes of your hart to his truth And so she departed AN EXORTATION written by the Lady Iane the night before she suffered in the ende of the New-testament in Greke whiche she sent to her sister Lady Katetine I Haue here sent you good sister Katetine a booke which although it be not outwardly trimmed with gold yet inwardli it is more worth thē precious stones It is the boke deare Sister of the Lawe of the Lorde It is his testament and last will which he bequethed vnto vs wretches whiche shall leade you to the path of eternall ioye And if you with a good mynde read it and with an ernest desire folowe it it shal bring you to an immortal and euerlasting life It will teache you to liue and learne you to dye It shal winne you more then you should haue gained by the possession of your woful fathers landes For as if God had prospered him you should haue inherited his lādes so if you appli diligently this boke seking to direct your life after it you shal be an inheritour of sutche riches as neither the couetous shal withdtaw from you nether the theife shal steale neither yet the mothes corrupte Desire with Dauid good sister to vnderstād the law of the lotd your god Liue stil to dye that you by death maye purchase eternall life And trust not that the tēdernes of your age shal lēgthen your life For assone if God cal goth the yong as the olde And laboure alwaye to learne to die Deny the world defie the deuil and dispisethe flesh and delight your selfe only in the Lord. Be penitent for your sinnes and yet dispaire not Be strong in saith and yet presume not and desire with S. Paull to bee dissolued and to be with Christe with whom euen in death ther is life Be like the good seruaut and euen at midnight be wakig Least when death commeth and steale vppon you like a these in the nighte you be with the deuils seruaunt found sleping and least for lacke of oyle ye bee founde like the fiue folishe wemen and like him that had not on the wedding garment and thē you be cast out from the Mariage Reioyce in Christ as I trust ye do And seinge ye haue the name of a Christian as nere as ye can folow the steppes of your master Christ and take vp your crosse lay your sinnes on his backe and alwaies imbrace him And as touching my death reioice as I do good sister that I shal be deliuered of this corruption and put on vncorruption For I am assured that I shall for losing of a mortal life winne an immortal life The which I praye God graunt you sende you of his grace to liue in his feare and to die in the true Christian saith Frō the which in gods name I exhorte you that ye neuer swar ue neither for hope of life ner fear of death For if ye wil deny his truth to lēg then your life God wil deny you and yet shorten your daies And if ye wil cleaue to him he wil prolong your daies to your comforte and his glory To the which glory God bringe me nowe and you hereafter whan it shal please god to cal you Far well good sister and put your onlye trustin God who onely must helpe you Amen Your louing sister Iane Dudley The Lady Ianes wordes vpon the Scaffold GOod Christen people I am vnder a lawe and by a law I am coudempned to dye not for ani thing I haue offended the quenes Maiesti for I wil wash my hands giltles therof but only for that I cōsēted to the thing which I was inforced vnto Not withstāding I haue offended almyghtie god for that I haue felowed ouer much the lust of mi flesh and the pleasure of this wretched world and I haue not liued according to the knowledge that God hath geuen me whetfote God harh plaged me nowe wyth thys kinde of death and that worthelye accordyng to my desertes Howe be it I thancke him hartelie that he hath geuen me time to repent my syns here in this world wherfor good Christian people I shall desyre you all to pray with me for me while I am now aliue that god of his goodnes will forgeue me my sinnes And I pray you al to beare me witnesse that I here dye a true Christian woman and that I truste to be saued by the bloud of Iesus Christ and bi none other meanes and now I pray you al pray for me and with me so said the psalm of Miserere mei that don she saied Lorde saue my soule whyche now I commend into thy hādes and so prepared herselfe meekelie to the blocke Finis