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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14250	The translation of a letter written by a Frenche gentilwoman to an other gentilwoman straunger, her frind, vpon the death of the most excellent and vertous ladye, Elenor of Roye, Princes of Conde, contaynyng her last wyll and testament. Doone by Henry Myddelmore gentylman at the request of the Ladye Anne Throkmorton	I. D. V., fl. 1564.; Myddelmore, Henry.	1564 (1564)	STC 24565; ESTC S105901	21,518	65

other canne make or moue any thinge and yet neuerthelesse he can not be sayd nor ought to be sayd the procurer to euyll or the cause or author of synne whiche doth proceade of the corruption malice that man hath purchassed to hym selfe After this she protested that she dyd not thynke that ther was any other meane or waye by the whiche men might haue remissiō of their synnes health and euerlastynge life but by Iesus Christ only and that there is no other name geuen to man for his saluation but that only and that as he is very God he is also only sauiour and redemer mediatour aduocat of man towardes God and sole sacrificatour sacrifice who hath ones for all satisfysed appaised the wrathe and strayte iudgement of God the father by his death for vs hath fully iustified vs in his resurrection Wherfore I take him sayd she for my only and notwithstādyng sufficient ransom for my peace for my wisdome for my iustice for my santcfication assuryng my selfe that he dyd prepare a place for me in heauen when he ascended thyther that he doth there tarye me with his father mine by hym with the holy Ghost the Aungels and the saints where I desyre to be with all my harte and whether I am sure I shal go or it be longe Thyrdly she gaue to vnderstād that we ought not to serue God otherwyse or in other sorte then as he hath appointed vs by hys worde And therfore that she did acknowledge two partes in the true seruice of God Wherof the first and principall is to trust and beleue stedfastly in him to obey his holy commandements to cal vpon him in all our necessities to giue thankes to him onlye as the only author of all goodnes Thother is to exercyse in the churche those thinges whiche he hath established as the ministery of his worde and of his Sacramentes the ecclesiasticall Discipline in her purenes followynge his order therin withoute mynglynge eyther of the witte or inuention of man and therfore addressynge her speache a newe to God she sayd further on this sort Howe aboundauntly oh Lord hast thou vouchsaft to shewe thy mercies vpon me that by thy holy sprite hast made me vnderstād and see that thy holy worde the holy Baptisme the holy Supper whiche be the two Sacramentes that thy Sonne Iesus Christe hath lefte to thy churche his spouse body the discipline and correctiō of sinners ordeined by hym in his Gospel be purelye and sincerely administred in the reformed churches of Fraunce also that in the same churches the true doctrine of obedience of repentaunce of faythe and iustification by the same through the merite of Iesus Christ wythoute that there may be anye thynge at all allowed of ours for payment is there preached and constantlie declared that Gods name is truly called vpon there that is to saye in the onlye name of Iesus Christ and that to hym alone begyuen al thankes for al his goodnes receyued For these causes I say Oh my Lord delyuerer I do acknowledge that these reformed churches with all other lyke vnto thē wher soeuer they be do make togethers the spouse and the body of thy Sōne Iesus Christ thy chosen vyne thy flocke thy holy Ierusalem and thy lawfull assemblye thankynge thee wyth al my hart that thou haste called me to this moste happye knowledge yea and I thāke thee more that thou haste made me one of the stones of this thy buyldynge humble Citie one of the shepe of this thy flocke one of the braūches of this thy vyne and one of the members of this body and of this spouse of thy Sonne Iesus Christ Make me so to perseuere oh dyuine goodnes and continue in me these graces euen vnto the last sighe of my lyfe to the ende that accordynge to thy promesse I may be receaued of the into the kyngdome and heritage of thy most happy chyldren The ende of the wyll Wythin an houre after she sent for and caused to come into her chamber the Minister de l' Espine of whome I haue already spoken to you and continuynge in one maner of feruencye affection the talke which before she had entamed she began to recite the fauours whiche God had shewed her hauynge as vnto the worlde made her greatly honorable and imparted largely inoughe vnto her of the goods of the same assisted her in all her affaires defended and susteyned my Lord her husbande my Lady her mother her selfe her children her kynsfolks and frindes against all the enterprises and conspiracies of their ennemyes and yet that al these his graces dyd seame lyttel vnto her in respect of the knowledge which he had geuen her of hym of his Sone by his holy worde for in that only cōsisted al her felicitie it was the certaine and true foundation of all her hope And being by all these reasons infinitly bounde to serue God that notwithstandyng she had not done her dutye to acknowledge and confesse the author frō whome so many and sondrye blessyngs came vnto her to giue vnto him for thē all thankes praises and glorye Neuerthelesse for all these greate ingratitudes which she had vsed towards God she dyd verely hope that by hys mercy and the merite of his Sonne the same and all other his fautes shulde be entyerely pardoned assurynge her selfe to be in the nomber of his shepe by the grace she had receyued to heare the voice of her sheppeard pastour and that by his callynge of her she was assured of her Iustice and glorie For these causes she sayd she desired nothing more earnestly thē to be quicklye out of this worlde that she might go into the armes of her Sauiour that notwithstanding she dyd leaue behynd her my Lord the Prince her husbande my Ladye her mother my Lords her children whiche she dyd loue as muche and as well as nature and dutye might beare yet she preferred God to all them And that there was nothing so deare vnto her as to followe redilye and chearefullye his good wyll and pleasure The Dyuel she said dyd set before her eyes many sondry imaginations touching the kyngdome of heauen went about to persuade her that it was not the same that she toke it to be that by that meanes he might brynge her to be lothe to leaue the vaine pleasures delightes of this worlde But for al that she dyd remayne ancred in that faith that eye neuer sawe care neuer harde nor harte of mā could euer conceaue which god hath prepared for his elect As she had thus made an ende came into the chamber my Lorde the Prince as he was very diligent in visitinge of her and after that he had spent a fewe wordes in the coumfortyng of her she sayd vnto him there were fowre things which dyd greatly satisfice and content her The firste was the assuraunce she had of her saluatiō for by the hope and hande