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 Rest of the Heart

Scripture Reference:

• Psalms 114 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This emblem depicts a woman kneeling on the ground and gazing up at an angel in heaven who holds her heart to his chest. The image is titled with the Latin CORDIS QUIES, which translates “the rest of the heart,” and is accompanied by the text of Psalm 114:7. This is the fortieth in a series of 47 emblems published anonymously and adapted from Benedictine writer Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis (1629).

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