meaning, and as to the principle on which his different statements were to be reconciled, was long keenly debated between the Franciscan and Dominican orders. Nay, even in the last century, at the very dawn of the uprising truth, there was a diversity of opinion on this point among the Protestant leaders themselves; one view being held by Luther,* Calvin, and Beza, and another by Erasmus, Melancthon, Bullinger, Sarcerius, Latimer, and many other leaders of the Reformed faith. Aud more, following