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You haue not answered one worde of this, but only shifted it of: I purpose not* 1.1 at this tyme to vnrippe the answere to the Examiner, except you had taken the paines to set it downe. Both the places of Hierome are to be séene: in the one he sheweth, that in the administration of the Sacramentes, the Bishoppe, Prieste, and Deacon didde weare a white vesture: And in the other he sayeth, that the Religion of GOD hathe one habite in the ministration, and an other in the common vse and lyfe. Ioyne these two places together, and sée whether the woords of Hierome be manyfest or no. And that it may euidently appeare, that at this tyme wherein Hierome lyued, the maner was to weare white garments in the tyme of diuine seruice and Administra∣tion of Sacramentes, I will recite the wordes of the fourthe Councell of Carthage, at the which there were present. 214. Bishops among whome was S. Augustine: Diaconus tempore oblationis tantùm vellectionis, alba induatur: Let the Deacon weare a whyte* 1.2 vesture, only in the tyme of the oblation and reading. Canone. 41. And this may be a suf∣ficient confutation to what soeuer is spoken of these places of Hierome in the an∣swere to the Examiner.