The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

If I did love Jesus Christ with a due fervor, ardency and sweet flames of love, the consideration of his pains which he has endured and undergone would tend to reconcile me to pain; and the thoughts of his death would ever reconcile me to the pains and terrors of death, and tend to make me love that which my dear Lord has undergone; and the thoughts of his burial would take away all the horror of the dark and ghastly grave, and would as it were consume it. For love has had this effect sometimes even on earthly friends, and lovers who have loved death because their lovers were dead.