Hierom hath the words you cite, lib. 1. adv. Pelag. pag. 416. much urged by Bellarmine and the Papists for their apparel, and no less vehemently pr•ssed by our men, for ours, but duly considered, without ca•se. The Candida vestis Hierome speaks of, was no peculiar garment of the Ministers, but the ordinary clothing of the common people,1 in former time generally used by all, and daily, but afterwards only by those of the better sort, and upon Festival days. So Aulius Gellius writeth of Africanus: That when he was guilty, neither was his beard shaven, nor his white garment off, nor was he of the common attire of the guilty. The Ambassadors of Rhodes coming to Rome, were first seen in white, but finding things contrary to their expectation, they were forced presently with a viler garment to compass the houses of Princes. Liv. decad. •. lib. 5. pag. 254. Yea, the very mariners and passengers in a ship of Egypt, seeing Augustus to pass by, showed themselves in white, and crowned. The same Augustus was angry when he saw a company in mourning, and thereupon made a law, That none should sit among the mourners. From thence grew a difference among the Citizens, not heard of in former ages, whereby some were called Candidate, some Pullati: Candidati, not such as sued for offices, as in times past, but the Citizens of better ⟨p. 506⟩rank: Pullati, the lowest of the people, and the vulgar multitude:2 both, from the colour of their garments which they used. Tertullian saith of the manumitted servants (who upon their first enfranchising appeared in their gowns, that is, the common vesture of the Citizens) If thy servant be free and honoured with the brightness of the white garment, & the grace of the gold ring, and the name of a Patron, & with the tribe and table. Yea the Papists themselves (as Baronius) allege to this purpose [Simeon Metaphrastes] in the acts of [Indes and Domna,] where it is said of the multitude, Some wicked ones were present in white and magnificent garments, celebrating the feast of their own ruin, but Indes only was in black. And of Honofrius [qui alba induit vestimenta] least he should be discovered to be a Christian put on white. For the devouter Christians began to take themselves to darker colours, as more modest and decent, especially after the Monks once began to grow in credit. 2.
Hierom hath the words you cite, lib. 1. adv. Pelag. pag. 416. much urged by Bellarmine and the Papists for their apparrell, and no lesse vehemently pr•ssed by our men, for ours, but duely considered, without ca•se. The Candida vestis Hierome speakes of, was no peculiar garment of the Ministers, but the ordinary cl•thing of the common people,1 in former time generally used by all, and daily, but afterwardes onely by those of the better sort, and upon Festivall dayes. So Aulius Gellius writeth of Africanus: That when he was guilty, neither was his beard shaven, nor his white garment off, nor was he of the common attire of the guilty. The Ambassadors of Rhodes comming to Rome, were first seene in white, but finding things contrary to their expectation, they were forced presently with a viler garment to compasse the houses of Princes. Liv. decad. •. lib. 5. pag. 254. Yea, the very mariners and passengers in a ship of Egypt, seeing Augustus to passe by, shewed themselves in white, and crowned. The same Augustus was angry when he saw a company in mourning, and thereupon made a law, That none should sit among the mourners. From thence grew a difference among the Citizens, not heard of in former ages, whereby some were called Candidate, some Pullati: Candidati, not such as sued for offices, as in times past, but the Citizers of better ⟨p. 506⟩ranke: Pullati, the lowest of the people, and the vulgar multitude:2 both, from the colour of their garments which they used. Tertullian sayth of the manumitted servants (who upon their first infranchising appeared in their gownes, that is, the common vesture of the Citizens) If thy servant be free and honoured with the brightnes of the white garment, & the grace of the gold ring, and the name of a Patron, & with the tribe and table. Yea the Papists themselves (as Baronius) allege to this purpose [Simeon Metaphrastes] in the acts of [Indes and Domna,] where it is said of the multitude, Some wicked ones were present in white and magnificent garments, celebrating the feast of their owne ruine, but Indes onely was in blacke. And of Honofrius [qui alba induit vestimenta] least he should be discovered to be a Christian put on white. For the devoater Christians began to take themselves to darker colours, as more modest and decent, especially after the Monkes once began to growe in credit. 2.
- 1Eumque cum esset reus, noque barbor• desi •sse radi, noque non candida vesto uti, neque fuisse solito cultu reorum. primò in vesto candida visi sunt,] [vesta sordida sumpea, principum domos circum ire, &c.] Liv. decad 5. lib. 5. pag. 254. [candidati, coronatique] Sueton. Aug. c. 99. [visa quondam pro conci••• pullatorum turba.] [N• quis pullatorum media cavea sedaret.] Sueton. Aug. c. 40.44.
- 2Si famulum tuum libertate mutavetii, & vestis albae nitore, & aurei annuli honore, & Patroni nomine, ac tribu mensaque honoratur. de resut. carnis. Aderant quidem impij candidis & magnificu vestibus celebrants festum sui intoritus, solus autem Indes atris indutus vestibus. Unde adjungis gloriam vestium & ornamentorum Deo esse contrariam. Quae sunt rogo inimicitiae contra Deum, si tunicam habuero mundiorem? Cavete Clerici cavete Monechi, Viduae, & Virgines: periclitamini nisi surdidas vos atque pannosas vu•gus aspexerit. Tac•o de hom•nibus saculi, quibus aperte bellum indicitur, & inimicitiae contra Deum, si prec•o•• atque nitentibus utantur ex••ijs.Si famulum tuum libertate mutavetii, & vestis albae nitore, & aurei annuli honore, & Patroni nomine, ac tribu mensaque honoratur. de resut. carnis. Aderant quidem impij candidis & magnificu vestibus celebrantes festum sui intoritus, solus autem Indes atris indutus vestibus. Vnde adjungis gloriam vestium & ornamentorum Deo esse contrariam. Quae sunt rogo inimicitiae contra Deum, si tunicam habuero mundiorem? Cavete Clerici cavete Monechi, Viduae, & Virgines: periclitamini nisi surdidas vos atque pannosas vu•gus aspexerit. Tac•o de hom•nibus saculi, quibus aperte bellum indicitur, & inimicitiae contra Deum, si prec•o•• atque nitentibus utantur ex••ijs.
