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.

Aspirations.

O God, I have that passionate desire, which these strangers had, to see Jesus. I do not ask it of Philip, nor shall Philip have cause to ask Andrew. My Jesus, I ask it of thy self. Thou art beau∣tifull even in the way of the Cross; Thou didst shew thy self couragious in the Abyss of thy pains: thou art admirable in the contempt of death. The hea∣venly trumpet hath already sounded for thee, and chearfulness gives wings to carry thee to this great combat, where death and life fight singly together: which makes life die for a time, and death live for ever. I will forsake my very soul, to follow thee in this Agonie, and find my life in thy death, as thou hast extinguished death in thy life.