Book Title: Spiegel van het menselyk bedrijf : in kleuren vertoond met honderd verbeeldingen, van ambachten, konsten, hanteeringen en bedryven, met verzen / Jan en Kasper Luiken.

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Gunsmith: Virtue’s gun is good, For the evil you encounter

Scripture Reference:

• Matthew 5 (further images / scripture text)

Description: The gunsmith holds a musket by its barrel to adjust the flintlock mechanism. A second worker enters the shop with wooden gunstocks, while a third man works on the right. Various pistols are displayed above the window. The Dutch artist and poet, Jan Luiken (1649-1712), was responsible for drawing this emblem and for creating the motto and poem that follow. Jan Luiken and/or his son Casper Luiken (1672-1708) were responsible for its etching. The attendant scripture text is Matthew 5:5. Motto: Virtue’s gun is good, / For the evil you encounter. Poem: However accurately someone shoots, /He does not hit the right enemy: /But desires, that push from the heart, / Driven by devoutness, /Are the right weapons in the fight, /To constrain hell’s hostility. (Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker).

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