The holy court in five tomes, the first treating of motives which should excite men of qualitie to Christian perfection, the second of the prelate, souldier, states-man, and ladie, the third of maxims of Christianitie against prophanesse ..., the fourth containing the command of reason over the passions, the fifth now first published in English and much augemented according to the last edition of the authour containing the lives of the most famous and illustrious courtiers taken out of the Old and New Testament and other modern authours / written in French by Nicholas Caussin ; translated into English by Sr. T.H. and others.

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AVGVSTA AEL PVLCHERIA

PULCHERIA FLA. THEODOSII JUNIORIS SOROR AUGUSTA, VIRGO ET CONJUX, AUGUSTORUM FILIA, SOROR NEP∣TIS, UXOR; PROPUGNATRIX PONTIFICUM, MAGISTRA IMPERATORVM, CVSTOS FIDEI, MVNIMEN ORTHODOXO∣RVM, ECCLESIAE ET IMPERII DECVS, NOVA HELENA, NO∣VVM ORBIS MIRACVLVM, ANNO CHRISTI CLIII. AETATIS LV. IMPERII XXXIX. AD COELESTEM AVLAM PROFICISCITVR.

Upon the picture of PULCHERIA.

A Golden Virgin in an iron Age, Who trampled under foot infernal rage, A barren wife, a fruitfull maid, unstain'd, That all the world within her heart contain'd: Mother of people, Mistress over Kings, brings. And who 'twixt Church and Law firm union She in herself bright Scepters did behold Joyn'd to the Cross, Altars to Crowns of gold, The married life unto virginitie, And glorious greatness to humilitie. If virtue were a substance to be seen, Well might we here suppose this happy Queen Should lend her body, that it outward may Resplendent lustre to the world display.

GReat-ones may here behold, the shortest way to the Temple of Honour, is to pass by that of Virtue. Never woman was more honoured in her life, never woman more glorious in her death. That great Pope S. Leo, S. Cyril, and all the excellent men both of the East and West, have employed their pens in her honour. So magnificent and noble accla∣mations were made to her in Councels, that nothing would be wished more glorious. A little before her death in the Councel of Chalcedon, they cried out, Long live the Empress most Sacred, Long live PUL∣CHERIA, Long live the Second S. Helena: God preserve the Saint, Preserve the Orthodox, Preserve Her who is the Guardian of Faith;

What tropheys of Alexanders and Caesars are com∣parable to such honour? Raderus, who hath learn∣edly written her life, maketh a collection of her ti∣tles, and calleth her the holy Pulcheria, ever a virgin, always sacred; a virgin out of marriage, a virgin in marriage; daughter of an Emperour, wife of an Em∣perour, Mistress of Emperours, Protectress of Popes, Guardian of faith, Bulwark of the faithfull, Honour of the Church, Glory of the Empire, the new Hele∣na, the new Miracle of the world, the new Example for posterity. The titles which Saints have given her, and her name in the quality of a Saint, have been couched in the Menologe of the Grecians and the Ro∣man Martyrologe, the 10^th September, a month where∣in she passed from this world to the glory of Saints, in the year of our Lord 453. And Martianus her husband being not able to live without this celestial soul, fled quickly hence after her, to enjoy the re∣compence of his piety. Of whom behold here the Picture and Elogie.