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A17189	The iudgement of the Godly and learned father M. Henry Bullinger chiefe preacher and pastor of the Church of Zurich in Swicerlande, declaring it to be lawfull for the ministers of the Churche of Englande, to weare the apparell prescribed by the lawes and orders of the same realme.	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.	1566 (1566)	STC 4063; ESTC S111156	12,784	48

The Iudgement of the Godly and learned Father M. Henry Bullinger chiefe Preacher and Pastor of the Church of Zurich in Swicerlande declaring it to be lawfull for the Ministers of the Church of Englande to weare the Apparell prescribed by the Lawes and orders of the same Realme IMPRINTED at London by William Seres dwelling in Paules Church yarde at the signe of the Hedgehogge To the Reader SEING THAT Maister Bullinger himselfe of special good wil and zeale towards the Churche of Englande and the Ministers of the same hauing trauayled and taken payne to write his iudgemēt in this matter thought it expedient to cōmunicate the same not onely with those two brethren here at whose request he wrote his minde herein But also with certaine Byshops of this Realme as by his letter to them directed and herevnto annexed apeareth that for the peace quietnesse of this Church of Englande as he himselfe affirmeth And considering also that the iudgement of two notable learned men Maister D. Bucer and maister D. Peter Martyr touching this controuersie hath alredy bene set forth and published It is therefore thought good also to publish in print the sayde iudgement of Maister Bullinger being a man singulerly well learned and Godly and a worthy Minister in Christes Church not doubting but that muche good shall insue thereof both to the stablishing of weake cōsciences troubled about this matter and also to the satisfaction of those which without contention or affection seeke only the truth of doctrine in this behalfe To the Reuerende Fathers in Christ D. Robert Horne B. of Winchester D. Grindall B. of London D. Parkhurst B. of Norwitch in England c. REuerende Fathers Honorable dearely beloued brethren The Lord Iesus blesse you and kepe you from al euil We send you the copie of our writing concerning the mater of Apparell sent by vs to N. M. men learned and godly our worshipful brethren And therfore send we it vnto you that ye maye vnderstande howe that we deale not priuately with your brethrē without the knowledge of you which are the principall Ministers and that we to the vttermost of our powers doe séeke the peace and quietnesse of your Churches in all things And we praye the Lord alwayes to saue the state there and kéepe you in concorde We also exhorte you our right Reuerende and dearest brethren to haue good regarde vnto faythfull Ministers and learned men for such also commonly haue their affections Wherfore the Apostle also warned men to beare one an others burthen Ye by your authority may do much with the most excellēt Princesse your Quene entreate ye hir Maiestie that the good brethren may be reconciled and restored And we praye you honorable and deare brother M. Horne to whome these letters may be first deliuered that ye will cause them forthwith to be caryed to the Byshop of Norwich and so communicate them with M. Iewell M. Sandes and M. Pilkington to whom by Gods grace I meane to write the nexte Frankford mart These letters I wrote in all haste aswell in myne owne as in Gualters name and sent them to Basile thence to be conueighed to Andwerpe We praye you hartily to signifie whether ye haue receiued them Fare ye wel right Reuerend The Lord blesse you your labors At Zurich the thirde of Maij. 1566. Your Bullinger ¶ The Copie of Master Bullingers Letter to N. and M. RIght Worshypfull and welbeloued brethrē the Lorde Iesus blesse you and kepe you from all euill I haue receyued your Letters wherby I perceiued you N. to complaine that mine answere made to your question semed ouer short Albeit I good Brother then saw no cause neyther now do why I shuld write any long letters For ye required onely my iudgement concerning the matter of Apparell where aboute there was contention in Englande To that question I thought good to answere you briefly For I coulde well in fewe wordes declare my minde Furthermore I knewe that D. Peter Martyr of blessed memorie had often at large handled the same question both at Oxeforde and here with vs wherevnto I had not what to adde And I remember that mētion was then made of my minde also in the letter which I wrote to you Brother M. And againe to say what I think in a worde or two I can neuer allow it if ye be commaūded to execute your Ministerie at an Aultar burthened rather than garnished with the Image of the Crucifixe and in a Massing garment that is in an Albe and Vestment bearing on the backe also the Image of the Crucifixe But as farre as I can perceyue by Letters brought oute of England there is now no contention for such apparell But the question is whether it be lawfull for the ministers of the gospell to weare a rounde or square cappe and the whyte Vesture whiche they call a Surplesse by the wearing wherof your Ministers maye be discerned from the people And whether they ought to forsake the ministerie and their sacred place rather than weare such apparell To this question I answered the right Reuerende D. Robert Horne Bishoppe of Winchester the last Mart and that briefly repeating the wordes of D. Martyr To him had my fellow Minister and dearely beloued Alliance Rodolph Gualter written a little afore the copie of whose letters I send to you and our other brethren inclosed in these Therefore if ye wil heare vs and that ye require our iudgement concerning the matter of Apparel as in your laste letters ye signified vnto me beholde ye haue in that Epistle our iudgemēt whervnto if ye can not agree we truely are most hartily sorie and hauing no further counsell we doe hartily and without ceasing pray vnto the Lord whom we must in all things alwayes haue respect vnto that he with his grace and might wil ease the present troubles You brother N. haue propoūded certaine questions and our brother M. hath gathered moe of the same argumēt And albeit I according to my simple rudenesse neuer liked to haue maters drawē into so many questions and intangled in intricate doubtes whiche otherwise being of themselues more simple might in fewe wordes and plainely ynough be answered yet wil I note somewhat vpon euerye one that I maye herein also gratifie you my worshipfull and moste dearely beloued brethren as farre forth as my poore skill and abilitie will giue me leaue And I beséeche you to receyue these of me your brother and harty louer in good parte and iudge of them with a quiet minde and frée from all affections I vtterlye abhorre contentions and nothing doe I more humblie craue at the Lordes hande than that he will remoue farre from the Churche all contentions which from the beginning and alwayes haue greatly annoyed true Godlinesse and rent a sunder the Churche when it was reasonablie quiet and in good case Where ye aske whether lawes of apparell ought to be prescribed to Ecclesiasticall persons that thereby they may

is certayne that Christians when they came first vnto Christes religion and to the Church for a gowne put on a cloke For which cause when they were mocked of the Gentiles Tertullian wrote a very learned treatise de Pallio I coulde bring forthe manye other things of this sorte if these were not sufficient In deede I had rather haue nothing layed vpon the ministers against their willes and that they might vse the maner of the Apostles but for as much as the Quéenes Maiestie requireth the Cap only and the Surplesse wherein as is oftentimes sayde already she putteth no Religion and the same things haue bene vsed of the auncient Fathers when the Church was in better case without all superstition and fault I woulde wish good Ministers not to put all the going forward of Religion in these things as if they were all and summe according to the prouerb but yelde somewhat to the time and not odiousely to striue about a thing indifferent but iudge soberly that these things may be borne but we must goe forwarde with the tyme. For that suche are nearer to the simplicitie of the Apostles as knowe no such differences or enforce them not yet in the meane whyle abhorre not discipline in Apparell Whether prescription of Apparell agréeth with christiā libertie I answere That things indifferent admitte sometime prescription and enforcement also as I may terme it as touching the vse and not for necessitie so as that which is by nature indifferent shoulde be thrust vpon the conscience as necessarie and so the mindes driuē into scrupolositie Times verilie and places of holy assemblies are rightely compted among indifferent things and yet if these then be no set order what confusion I pray you and disorder woulde growe therevpon Whether any new ceremonies maye be heaped beside the expresse rule of the worde of God I answere that I lyke not heaping of new ceremonies and yet I denie not but that some may be ordeyned so that the seruice of God be not put in them but appointed for order and discipline Christ himselfe kept the feast or ceremonie of the Encoenia or dedication and yet we finde not this feast prescribed in the lawe To be shorte the greater part of the propositions or questions concerning Apparell standeth in this whether lawes for Apparell ought or be lawfull to be made in the Church And it bringeth the question to a generalitie to wit what order may be taken for ceremonies To these propositions I answere briefely that I for my parte I had rather haue no ceremonies but such as are necessarie thrust vpō the Church yet in the meane season I graunt that lawes concerning ceremonies paraduēture not very necessarie and sometime vnprofitable may not straight waye be condemned of impietie and so troubles and schismes raysed in the Church so long as they be voyde of superstition and the things are in their owne nature indifferent Whether it be lawfull to restore the abolished rytes of the Iewes to translate ceremonies properly dedicate to religion of Idolaters to the vse of reformed Churches To this question I answere afore when I entreated of Leuiticall rytes And I woulde not haue Idolatrous rytes vnpurged of errours translated into reformed Churches And agayne and on the contrarie parte it might be demaunded whether receyued Rytes superstition being remoued may not by discipline and order be retained without sinne Whether conformitie in ceremonies be of necessitie to be exacted I answere That conformitie in ceremonies is not paraduenture necessarie in al Churches In the meane season if a thing not necessarie be commaunded so that the same be not vngodly it seemeth not that therfore the Church shoulde be forsaken There was not conformitie in rytes in all the olde Churches Yet suche as kéept not conformitie reproued not the kéepers of vniforme rites And I am easely persuaded that pollitike wise men vrge this vniformitie of rytes bicause they thinke it maketh vnto concorde and bicause the Church of al Englande is one Church wherein if there be no impietie mixed I sée not howe ye can so fiercely sette your selues againste suche orders being not euill Whether Ceremonies openly offensiue may be retayned I aunswere that offence ought to be auoyded In the meane time we must beware that we couer not our owne affections vnder the name of offence Ye knowe there is an offence giuen and an offence taken and as it were sought of our selues I dispute not now whether you can for a thing indifferent without giuing of grieuous offence forsake the Churches that Christ dyed for Whether any orders are to be borne in the Church which in their owne nature in déede are not vngodlie but yet make nothing for edificatiō I answere if the orders which the Quenes maiestie enioyneth you be voyde of impietie ye ought rather to beare them than forsake your Churches for if the edifying of the Church is chiefely to be sought in this matter verily we shall soner destroy the Church by forsaking it than by putting on the Apparell And where vngodlynesse is not neyther the conscience offended there must we not giue ouer though we shoulde beare some seruitude And here agayne it might be demaunded whether Apparell may iustly be compted seruitude so farre forth as it serueth to comlynesse and order Whether the Prince ought to prescribe anye thing to the Churches in Ceremonies without the good will and frée consent of ecclesiasticall persons I answere if the Prince shoulde alwayes haue stayed for the good will of his cleargie paraduenture the moste wise and godly kings Iosaphat Ezechias Asa and Iosias and other good Princes had neuer brought the Leuites and Ministers of the Churches into order Albeit my mind is not at all that Bishops shoulde be shut out of consultations for the Church Againe I would not haue them chalenge such authoritie to themselues as they haue vsurped against Princes and Magistrates in Papacie Neyther woulde I haue Bishops to holde their peace and agrée vnto vniust ordinaunces of Princes The last two questions touch the mater nearer Whether it were better in thys order to serue the Churche or for these thinges to be cast out of ecclesiasticall function And whether good Pastors may for the neglecting of suche Ceremonies iustly be put from the ministerie I answere if there be no superstition nor impietie in the rytes and yet they are enforced and enioyned good Pastours which had rather be discharged of them in déede I will graunt and that more liberally than néedeth that a burthen and seruitude is layde vpon them but I will not graunt and that for most iust causes that therefore they shoulde forsake their place or ministerie and giue ouer vnto Wolues as it hath bene sayd already or to vnfitter Ministers specially when libertie to preache is not taken away and prouision may be made that no further seruitude creepe in and many such like things I haue sayde what I thought to be saide of the matters propounded in