Book Title: Pious addresses of the heart to God wherein is shown its departure from and return to God in forty seven divine emblems illustrated with copper plates / By a Private Hand.

Author: Private hand

Image Title: The Leveling of the Heart

Scripture Reference:

• Psalms 97 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This emblem depicts an angel helping a woman level her heart for rectification. The image is titled with the Latin CORDIS RECTIFICATIO, which translates “the leveling of the heart,” and is accompanied by the text of Psalm 97:11. This is the twenty-third in a series of 47 emblems published anonymously and adapted from Benedictine writer Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis (1629).

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