The Reformers quoted from the Fathers only to reject their authority in favor of their own reading of Scripture.
Actually the "Fathers" only have the authority Rome gives them, as the Church judged them more than they judge "the Church," and and she fails of their unanimous consent, and thus you mean The Roman Reformers reject all authority in favor of their own in reading of Tradition, Scripture and history, substantially differing even with the Orthodox on papal power and infallibility, purgatory, indigence, etc.
Thus no less an authority than Manning stated,
It was the charge of the Reformers that the Catholic doctrines were not primitive, and their pretension was to revert to antiquity. But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine.
I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. Its past is present with it, for both are one to a mind which is immutable. Primitive and modern are predicates, not of truth, but of ourselves. Most Rev. Dr. Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Lord Archbishop of Westminster, “The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost: Or Reason and Revelation,” (New York: J.P. Kenedy & Sons, originally written 1865, reprinted with no date), pp. 227-228.