Here is a good quote from Augustine showing clearly that he would have sided with the papacy against Luther and Calvin and the rest of the reformers.
“What has the Roman Chair done to thee, in which Peter sat and in which now Anastasius sits? … Why do you call the Apostolic Chair the chair of pestilence? If it is on account of men whom you consider to be declaring and not keeping the law— did Our Lord, on account of the Pharisees, of whom he said: ‘They say and do not’ do any injury to the chair in which they sat? Did he not commend that chair of Moses, and reprove them, saving the honour of their chair? For he says, Super cathedram, and so on (Matthew xxiii, 2). If you considered these things you would not, on account of the men you speak against, blaspheme the Apostolic Chair, with which you do not communicate. But what does it all mean save that they have nothing to say, and yet are unable to keep from ill-saying.”
(I found this in the Catholic Controversy by St Francis de Sales)
Also see here:
http://www.biblicalcatholic.com/apologetics/num16.htm
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