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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

of the best words and phrases together who can haue that possible dulnesse of spirit in him as not to conclude and beléeue that her birth her education and all the naturall inclinations of her own Spirits were sutable agréeing with that best goodnes which how sildome extant yet is euer expected in all noble personages for indéed Gentry it selfe is but vertue and all dignity added to Gentry doth but as it were baptize it with a more renowned Title of the most excellent vertue in which stile this Ladie might take a large boast and instead of Caesars veni vidi vici Of her may be said she was Noble Chast and Religious But some ouer-curious to examine goodnesse may reply vnto me that her honour was her Ancestors and not the worke of her fundamentall institution therefore not altogether so glorious that her sober and chast life was either a singular guift from aboue or a tormenting feare of the shame of this world continually stird vp in her blood through the discourse of readings or examples and that her religion being traduc'd from the instructions of her first Parents and seconded by the learned Admonitions of them of the same opinion her minde as it were beeing vtterly vnacquainted with any other contrary Argument but euer foothed vp and fort●fied in one path onely that it was no great worke either of maruaile or maistery that she continued either so good constant or violent in the heate of her zealousnesse whereas if shee had heard the continuall temptations of the aduersarie and beene enforced to haue held a long battell with men esteemed profound in a quite opposite opinion or had beene burthened with the heauy and tyrannous yoake of authority which by intollerable afflictions would haue not onely threatned the bending but the breaking of her heart and bowels if shee had not yeelded to the wil of their opinions then for her brauely to haue held out such a weary siedge and with a setled constancy to haue vndergon and triumphed in such a Christian warfare had not only beene memorable but rare matchlesse and renowned To let passe the two first suggestions being sleight and not worthy the labour of any serious Pen because no doubt ought to be made where there is a probable assurance and to come to this last inference touching her temptations being so great and heauy that they came neare to the point of Martyrdome you shall vnderstand that after her most vnfortunate marriage and the vtter defaiture almost of her name and honors others ambitions hauing embarqued her into those rough waues which of necessity must swallow her as you may at large read in the whole story of our Chronicles diuers learned Romish Catholikes and euen those which were of the best fame and reputation were sent vnto her to disswade her from that true profession of the Gospell which from her cradle she had euer held each striuing by art by flattery by threatnings by promise of life or what else might mooue most in the bosome of a weake Woman who should become master of so great and worthy a prize but all their labours were bootlesse for she had art to confound their art wisedome to withstand their flatteries resolution aboue their menaces and such a true knowledge of life that death was to her no other then a most familiar acquaintance In the end a deepe-read Diuine called M. Feckenham then Chaplaine to Queene Mary was sent vnto her about some foure dayes before her death who had with her a long and tedious disputation but as the rest found himselfe in all holy gifts so short of her excellence that he acknowledged himselfe fitter to bee her Disciple then Teacher And thervpon humbly besought her to deliuer vnto him some briefe summe of her Faith which hee might hereafter keepe and as a faithfull witnesse publish to the world to which shee willingly condiscended and bad him boldly question her in what points of religion so euer it pleased him and she would giue her faithfull and beleeuing answere such as shee would euer bee ready to seale with her dearest blood The summe of which conference you shall heare read as it was written with her own hand and her name subscribed therevnto as followeth A conference Dialogue-wise held betweene the Lady Iane Dudley and M. Feckenham foure dayes before her Death touching her Faith and Religion Feck VVHat thing is required in a Christian Iane. To beleeue in God the Father in God the Sonne in God the Holy Ghost three persons and one God Feck Is there nothing else required in a Christian but to beleeue in God Iane Yes We must beleeue in him wee must loue him with all our heart with all our soule and all our minde and our Neighbour as our selfe Feck Why then Faith iustifieth not nor saueth not Iane. Yes verily Faith as S. Paul saith onely iustifieth Feck Why S. Paul saith if I haue all the Faith of the world without loue it is nothing Iane. True it is for how can I loue him I trust not or how can I trust in him whom I loue not Faith Loue euer agree together and yet Loue is comprehended in Faith Feck How shall we loue our Neighbour Iane To loue our Neighbour is to feed the hungry cloth the naked and to giue drinke to the thirsty and to do to him as we would doe to our selues Feck Why then it is necessarie to saluation to doe good workes and it is not sufficent to beleeue Iane I deny that I affirme that faith onely saueth But it is méet for all Christians in token that they follow their Master Christ to doe good works yet may we not say nor in any wise beléeue that they profit to saluation for although we haue done all that we can yet wee are vnprofitable seruants and the faith we haue onely in Christs blood and his merits saueth Feck How many Sacraments are there Iane Two the one the Sacrament of Baptisme and the other the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Feck ●o there be seuen Sacraments Iane By what Scripture finde you that Feck Well wee will talke of that hereafter But what what is signified by your two Sacraments Iane By the Sacrament of Baptisme I am washed with Water and regenerated in the Spirit and that washing is a token to mee that I am the Child of God The Sacrament of the Lords Supper is offered vnto me as a sure Seale and Testimonie that I am by the blood of Christ which hee shed for me on the Crosse made partaker of the euerlasting Kingdome Feck Why what d●e you receiue in that bread d ee you not receiue the very body and bloud of Christ Iane No surely I doe not beleeue so I think● at that Supper I receiue neither flesh nor bloud but onely Bread and Wine the which bread when it is broken and the wine when it is drunke putteth mee in minde how that for my sinnes the body of Christ was broken and

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

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