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 Contrition of the Heart

Scripture Reference:

• Psalms 50 (further images / scripture text)

Description: This emblem depicts a man preparing to grind his heart with mortar and pestle while an angel gestures for him to cease. The image is titled with the Latin CORDIS CONTRITIO, which translates “the contrition of the heart,” and is accompanied by the text of Psalm 50:19. This is the fourteenth in a series of 47 emblems published anonymously and adapted from Benedictine writer Benedict van Haeften's Schola Cordis (1629).

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