Preface

As the subject of this book may, by its novelty in Protestant religious literature, attract the attention of preachers desirous of leading their flocks to fresh fields and pastures new, it may be mentioned that its history, as a theological topic, is given in ZOCKLER’S Das Lehrstuck von den tiieben Hauptsilnden, and that each of the seven sins is discussed with great acuteness and comprehensiveness in AQUINAS’ Summn (Secunda Secundce). The order varies in different writers; I have adopted that of the scholastic catchword SALIGIA, composed of the initial letters of the words Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Accidia.

JAMES STALKER.
GLASGOW, March 1901.