The Pot-Hanger

Book Title: Het leerzaam huisraad : vertoond in vyftig konstige figuuren, met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen / door Jan Luiken

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Pot-Hanger

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Description: Just as a pot may be suspended too high over the burning fire for the food to cook, so the fire that burns in the soul needs opportunity to have its effect. God does not want a people who are lukewarm in their devotion (Revelation 3:15-16). The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649–1712), whose initials are at the lower right, was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem and wrote the accompanying poem..

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