Luther and Ignatius Loyola

A parallel or counterpoising view of these two characters has been quoted in several publications, some of recent date; but in all it is attributed to a wrong source. Mr. McGavin, in his *Protestant*, Letter CXL., (p. 582, ed. 1846); Mr. Overbury, in his *Jesuits* (Lond. 1846), p. 8., and, of course, the authority from which he borrows, Poynder's *History of the Jesuits*; and Dr. Dowling's *Romanism*, p. 473. (ed. New York, 1849)—all these give, as the authority for the contrasted characters quoted, Damian's *Synopsis Societatis Jesu*. Nothing of the kind appears *there*; but in the *Imago pri…