If you doubte whether a particular kinde of apparell differing from the lay men, were euer appoynted for Ministers in the Church before the Popes tyrannie, and whether in these dayes it maye be appoynted in reformed Churches, or no, heare the iudgement of master Bullinger, and master Gualter, in an Epistle written by thē to master N. and master M. Their words be these.
That in the auncient Churche there vvas a particular fashion of appa∣rell* 1.1 for Priests, it appeareth in the Ecclesiasticall historie of Theodoret. lib. 2. cap. 27. and of Socrates lib. 6. cap. 22. No man is ignorante, vvhich hath but lightly redde ouer the monumentes of the auncient fathers, but that the Ministers vsed a cloake in their seruice. And therefore I say de before, that the diuersitie of garmentes had not his originall of the Pope. Eusebius citeth out of the auncient vvryters, that sainct Iohn the Apostle vvare on his head a leafe or thinne plate lyke vnto a Bishops myter. Pon∣tius Diaconus vvitnesseth of sainct Cyprian the Martyr, that vvhen he offered his necke to the executioner, he first gaue him his cappe, and the Deacon his vpper garment, and so stode appareled in vvhite linnen. More∣ouer Chrysostome maketh mention of vvhyte apparell of Ministers. Hi∣therto Bullinger and Gualter.