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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

be discerned from laye men I answere that there is doubtfulnesse in the worde Ought for if it be takē for necessarie pertayning to the obteyning of saluation I do not think the law makers them selues to be of this minde But if it be meant that this may be done for comelinesse and beautie or estimatiō and order to be a certaine ciuill obseruance or some suche thing be vnderstoode as that is that the Apostle would haue a church Minister or Bishop to be Cosmion that is comely I sée not what he offendeth that vseth such Apparell or that commaundeth to vse such Whether the Ceremoniall obseruaunce of the Leuitical Priesthoode be to be called againe into the Church I answere If a cappe and garment not vncomelye for a Minister and voyde of superstition be commaunded to be vsed of Ministers no man verely can truelye saye that Iudaisme is restored Furthermore I repeate here that I sée D. Martyr to haue answered to this question who when he had shewed that the Sacramentes of the olde Lawe are abolished which may not be brought again into the Church of Christ hauing baptisme and the holye Supper he added There were neuerthelesse in the Leuiticall lawe certaine actions of such sort as they coulde not properly be called holy for they serued for comelynesse and order some cōmodious vse which things as agréeable to the light of nature and helping somewhat to our commoditie I iudge may both be restored and retained Who séeth not that the Apostles for the peace and better agréement of the faithful cōmaunded the Gentiles to abstaine from bloud strangled These things without controuersie were legall and Leuiticall And none of vs is ignorant that Tithes also are at this day in many places appointed to finde the Ministers It is manifest that Psalmes Hymnes are song in the Church which thinges yet the Leuites also vsed And not to omit this we haue holy dayes in memory of the Lordes resurrection and others Nowe shall all these be done away bicause they be monuments of the old law ye sée then that all the Leuiticals are not so abrogate but that some of them may still be vsed Thus much he Whether it be lawefull to communicate with the Papistes in apparell I answere It is not yet proued that the Pope brought difference of apparell into the Church Nay it is certaine that difference of apparell is farre more auncient than the Pope Neyther doe I sée why we may not communicate with the Papistes in apparell not superstitious but politike and comely If in nothing we might cōmunicate with them then must we forsake all Churches receyue no stipends vse no baptisme reade neyther the Apostles nor Nicene Créede yea and then must we away with the Lords Prayer Neyther doe ye borrow of them any ceremonies Apparell from the beginning of your reformation was neuer remoued is still retayned not by Popishe order but by force of the Princes lawe as a thing indifferēt and politike So verely if ye vse as a ciuill thing the Cap and distinct Apparell it sauoureth neither of Iudaisme nor Monkerie For these séeke to séeme separate from ciuill life and put merite in their peculiar habite So Eustachius Bishop of Sebastia was condēpned not simplie for his peculiar habite but for that he put holinesse in it The Cannons of the Councell of Gangra Laodicea and of the sixt Synode are wel knowen If so be that some of the common people be persuaded that this sauoureth of Poperie Iewishnesse and Monkerie let them be admonished and better taught concerning these matters And if by the vndiscrete clamors of some blowen out aboute this matter among the Common people many are made vnquiet lette them that doe it beware they pul not heauier burthens vpon their owne neckes and prouoke the Quéenes Maiestie finally bring manye faithfull Ministers into daunger whence they shall hardelye be able to winde out Whether suche as haue hitherto enioyed their libertie may with safe conscience wrappe both them selues and the Church in this seruitude by force of the Quéenes Iniunctions I aunswere I thinke best to prouide that there be no odious disputations clamors and contentions about the matter of Apparell and so by suche importunitie occasion be giuen to the Quenes maiestie no longer to leaue it free for them the hitherto haue vsed their libertie but being exasperated with their outcries be in maner forced to commaunde either to receiue the ecclesiasticall Apparell or giue ouer their rowmes Surely me think it a straunge thing I speake it vnder your correction right worshipfull and welbeloued Brethren that ye persuade your selues that ye may not with safe conscience submitte your selues and the Churches to the seruitude of Apparell and doe not rather weighe that if ye will not vse a thing méere pollitike and indifferent but still contende odiously into what a seruitude ye then bring both your selues and your Churches by leauing of your rowmes and setting of the Churches wide open vnto Wolues or at the lest to more vnfit Teachers which are not so furnished as ye be to instruct the people haue ye then well defended the libertie of the Church when ye minister occasion to oppresse the Church with more and heuier burdens ye are not ignoraūt what a number séeke for how they be affected towardes the preaching of the Gospell what maner of persons shall succéede in your places and what is to be looked for at their hands Whether the Apparell of the cleargie be a thing indifferent Verilie it séemeth a thing indifferent being a ciuill thing and hauing regarde to comelinesse order and beautie without putting anye Religion in it Thus much briefly I thought to say to your questions my right well learned and welbeloued Brother N. Nowe I come to the questions of our brother M. also in declaration whereof I will paraduenture be shorter Whether peculiar Apparell distinct from laye men were euer appointed for ministers of the Church Whether at this day such ought to be appointed in reformed Churches also I answere That in the olde Churche there was distinct Apparell of priestes it appeareth by the ecclesiasticall historie of Theodoret lib. 2 cap. 27. and Socrates lib. 6. cap. 22. And that they vsed Pallium in ministratiō none that hath but ouer séene the monumentes of olde writers can be ignorant Therefore I signified afore that diuersitie of apparel had not his beginning of the Pope Eusebius at the least recordeth out of the moste auncient writers how that Iohn the Apostle wore at Ephaesus a Bishops attire vpō his head terming it Pelatum seu Lamina pontificalis As touching saint Ciprian the holy martyr Pontius the Deacon writeth that a little before he shoulde be beheaded he gaue vnto him that shoulde beheade him his vesture called Birrus and to his Deacon his vesture called Dalmatica and so stoode himselfe in linnen Furthermore Chrisostome maketh mention of the whyte vesture of ministers of the Church And it