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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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