"My Heavenly Dear,
I call you so because God has put heaven into you before He has taken you to heaven. You now behold God, Christ and glory, as in a glass; but tomorrow, heaven's gates will be opened and you shall be in the full enjoyment of all those glories which eye has not seen, nor ear has heard, neither can the heart of man understand. God has now swallowed up your heart in the thoughts of heaven, but ere long you shall be swallowed up in the enjoyment of heaven. And no marvel there should be such quietness and calmness in your spirit while you are sailing in this tempestuous sea, because you perceive by the eye of faith a haven of rest where you shall be richly laden with all the glories of heaven.
O lift up your heart with joy when you lay your dear head on the block in the thought of this: that you are laying your head to rest in your Father's bosom which, when you do awake, shall be crowned not with an earthly fading crown but with a heavenly eternal crown of glory."
- A letter (1651) from Mary Love to her husband Christopher Love, the night before he was to be executed.
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