Snares of the Devil

About this book

A treatise by Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris and a leading churchman of the fifteenth century, on the snares of the devil. Gerson catalogues the tempter's devices against Christians and gives sober counsel for resisting them, in the searching, practical manner of his pastoral writings. A brief window into late-medieval care of souls.

Contents

1. Biographical Notice.
2. Preface of the Author. 🔒
3. Chapter I. Of Vice under the semblance of Virtue. 🔒
4. Chapter II. Of Running into Opposite Extremes. 🔒
5. Chapter III. Of Good as a Handle to Evil. 🔒
6. Chapter IV. Of Curiosity in Various Ways. 🔒
7. Chapter V. Other Deceits of the Devil. 🔒