To believe unseen and unfelt love

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Robert Traill (The Lord's Prayer, John 17:24), Works 2:285-286:

Death, that to nature looks like the wages of sin, is made the door to glory. But how hard is it to believe it? He must have a strong faith, that can call his own dying a sleeping in Jesus, as 1 Thess. 4:14; that can make use of Jacob’s words concerning his sleeping place, Gen. 28:16, 17, This is the gate of heaven. It is the great work and difficulty, and yet duty in Christianity, to believe unseen and unfelt love, in and under well-seen and well-felt distress. Sometimes the Lord joins them, as in 1 Thess. 1:6, and 1 Peter 4:14, and then it is easy. But oft the wrath is felt, and the love is hid in the promise, and there only active faith can find it.
 
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