they be allowed the plea of all reformers, I mean, of appealing from and against the present Catholic Church, to the times past, the controversy can never be ended, until the dead speak.’ On the other hand, our best and wisest reformer, Ridley, (who, above every other individual of his time, was the true interpreter of the recently reformed English Church,) in his disputation at Oxford, quotes this very sentiment of Vincentius, as a ground of justification for the conduct of himself, and of his brethren: