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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

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

the 6. to the Hebrewes saying It is impossible that they which haue been once lightned and haue tasted of the heauenly gift of grace and beene made partakers of the Holy Ghost haue rellished of the pure word of God if they fall and slide away it is impossible that they should bee renewed againe by repentance crucifying againe to themselues the Son of God and making him as it were a mocking-stock or gaud of their fancies And againe saith he If we shall willingly sin after we haue receiued the knowledge of the truth there is no oblation left for sin but the terrible expectation of Iudgement and fire which shall deuour the aduersaries Thus S. Paul writeth and thus thou readest and dost thou not quake and tremble well if these terrible and thundering alarums cannot stir thée to arise and cleaue vnto Christ and forsake the world yet let the swéet consolations and promises of the Scriptures let the examples of Christ and his Apostles both Martyrs and Confessors encourage thee to take faster hold by Christ Hearken what he saith againe in his holy Gospell Blessed are you when men reuile you and persecute you for my sake reioyce and bee glad for great is your reward in heauen for so persecuted they the Prophets before you Heare what Esay saith Feare not the curse of men be not affraid of their blasphemies and reuilings for Wormes and Mothes shall eat them vp like cloath and wooll but my righteousnesse shall endure for euer and my sauing health from Generation to Generation What art thou then saith hée that fearest a mortall man the Child of a man which fadeth away as doth the flower and forgettest the Lord that made thee that spread out the heauens like a curtaine and laid the foundations of the earth so sure that they can not be remooued I am the Lord thy God which maketh the Sea to rage and to be still who is the Lord of Hoasts I shall put my word in thy mouth and defend thee with the turning of a hand And our Sauiour Christ saith to his Disciples They shall accuse you and bring you before the Princes and Rulers for my name sake and some of you they shal persecute and kill But feare you not saith he neither care you not what you shall say for it is my Spirit that speaketh in you the hand of the highest shall defend you for the haires of your heads are numbred and none of them shall perish I haue laid vp treasure for you saith he where no theefe can steale nor Moth corrupt and happy are you if you endure to the end Feare not them saith Christ which haue power ouer the body onely but feare him that hath power both ouer the body and the Soule The world loueth her owne and if you were of the world the world would loue you but you are mine and therefore the world doth hate you Let these and such like consolations out of the scriptures strengthen you to God-ward let not the examples of holie men and women go out of your mind as that of Daniel and the rest of the Prophets of the thrée Children of Eleazarus that constant Father the Machabees Children that of Peter Paul Stephen and other Apostles and holy Martyrs in the beginning and infancy of the Church as of good Simeon Arch-bishop of Seloma and Zetrophon● with infinite others vnder Sapores the King of the Persians and Indians who contemned all torments deuised by the Tyrants for their Sauiours sake Returne returne againe for honour and mercies sake into the way of Christ Iesus and as becommeth a faithfull Souldiour put on that Armor which S. Paul teacheth to be most necessary for a Christian man and aboue all thinges take to you the shield of Faith And be you most deuoutly prouoked by Christs owne example to withstand the deuill to forsake the world and to become a true and faithfull member of his mysticall body who spared not his owne flesh for our sinnes Throw down thy selfe with the feare of his threatned vengeance for this so great and haynous offence of Apostacy and comfort your selfe on the other part with the mercy blood and promises of him that is ready to turne to you whensoeuer you turne to him disdaine not to come againe with the lost son seeing you haue so wandred w t him be not ashamed to turn againe with him from the swill of strangers to the delicates of the most benigne louing father acknowledging that you haue sinned against heauen earth against heauen by stayning his glorious name and causing his most sincere and pure word to bee euill spoken of through you against earth by offending your so many weake Bretheren to whom you haue been a stumbling block through your suddaine sliding Bee not ashamed to come againe with Mary and to wéep bitterly with Peter not only with shedding of teares out of your bodily eyes but also pouring out the streames of your heart to wash away out of the sight of God the filth and mire of your offensiue fall bee not ashamed to say with the Publican Lord be mercifull vnto mee a sinner Remember the horrible history of Iulian of old and the lamentable case of Francis Spira of late whose remembrance me thinketh should be yet so gréene to your memory that being a thing of our time you should feare the like inconuenience seeing that you are falne into the like offence Last of all let the liuely remembrance of the last day be alwaies before your eyes remembring the terror that such shall bee in at that time with the Runnagates and Fugitiues from Christ which setting more by the world then by heauen more by their life then by him that gaue them their life more by the vanity of a painful ●●●th then the p●●s●● assurance of eternal saluation did shrinke yea did cleane fall away from him that neuer forsooke them And contrariwise the inestimable ioyes prepared for them which feared no perill nor dreading death haue manfullie fought and victoriouslie tryumphed ouer all power of darknesse ouer Hell Death and Damnation through their most redoubted Captaine IESVS CHRIST our Sauiour who euen now stretcheth out his Armes to receiue you ready to fall vppon your necke and kisse you and last of all to feast you with the dainties and delicates of his owne most pretious blood which vndoubtedly if it might stand with his determinate purpose hee would not let to shed againe rather then you should bee lost To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost bee all honor praise and glory euerlastingly Amen Yours if you be Christs Iane Gray I. G. Postscript Be constant be constant feare not for paine Christ hath deliuer'd thee and heauen is thy gaine THus hauing read her owne words penned by her owne hand and wayed well the depth and greatnesse of her most charitable deuotion her pregnant and rare knowledge in the Booke of God her swéete ell●cution in the scholler-like connexture and marriage

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