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And whereas you would prove that it may be done with the ministers / as it is done with Judges / sergeants / Aldermen and Sheriffs / the case is not like. For as for these which be in office / their robes and gowns may as their maces & swords / somewhat help to set forth the majesty and moderate pomp which is meet for the offices of justice which they execute / and consequently to help to strike a profitable fear into their hearts which are underneath them / which hath / nor can have no place in the minister / whose authority and power / as it is not outward / so can it not / nor ought not to borrow any credit of these external shows. And the Magistrate / or the City / may seek some honour of the citizens / mustering as it were by numbers in one livery / which ought not to be looked for at the ministers hand / because he honoureth and serveth the magistrate an other way / nor can not also / considering that they are scattered through all the land in every town one / or not so many / as being put in one livery / would make any great show to the honour & commendation of the town or city where they remain.

And whereas you would proue that it may be done with the ministers / as it is done with Iudges / sergeants / Aldermen and Sheriffes / the case is not like. For as for these which be in office / their robes and gownes may as their maces & swordes / somewhat helpe to set forth the maiestie and moderate pompe which is meete for the offices of iustice which they execute / and consequently to helpe to strike a profitable feare into their heartes which are vnderneath them / which hath / nor can haue no place in the minister / whose authoritie and power / as it is not outwarde / so can it not / nor ought not to borow any credite of these externall shewes. And the Magistrate / or the Citie / may seeke some honor of the citizens / mustering as it were by numbers in one liuerie / which ought not to be loked for at the ministers hand / because he honoureth and serueth the magistrate an other way / nor can not also / considering that they are scattered through all the land in euery towne one / or not so many / as being put in one liuery / would make any great shew to the honor & commendation of the towne or citie where they remaine.

And so you see your question answered / whereby appeareth they are subjects as other are / and to obey also sometimes / where the commandment is not given upon good grounds. The place of Theodoret cited of M. Bullinger / maketh mention of a golden cope / and that used by bishops of Jerusalem / and sold by Cyril a good bishop / whereby he declared sufficiently his misliking of such garments in the ministry of the sacraments. In the place the which he citeth out of Socrates / there is one Sycinius an Novatian bishop which is said to have worn white apparel / and therefore is reprehended as for to much exquisiteness & fineness of apparel / & the B. of Duresine / in a letter he wrote / allegeth the same place against the surplice. A man would hardly believe that master Bullinger should use these places to prove a distinction of apparel amongst the ministers. We are not ignorant but that a cloak hath been used of the ministers in their service / but that was no several apparel of the ministers / but common to all the Christians / which with change of their religion / changed also their apparel / as appeareth manifestly in Tertullian de pallio.