I'm convinced that the letters of Samuel Rutherford [1600?-1661] are some of the smartest, sweetest, and perhaps overlooked treasures available to the 21st century church.There are 365 letters in the Banner of Truth reprint [2006]. You could spend a year with a great preacher.
In his 2nd letter entitled, To a Christian Gentlewoman on the death of her daughter, Rutherford writes:
"Do you think her lost, when she is but sleeping in the bosom of the Almighty? Think her not absent who is in such a friend's house. Is she lost to you who is found to Christ? If she were with a dear friend, although you should never see her again, your care for her would be but small. Oh, now, is she not with a dear friend? And gone higher, upon a certain hope that ye shall, in the Resurrection, see her again, when [be ye sure] she shall never be hectic ['of relating to a fever' or 'flushed'] nor consumed in body."
Here's a link where you can order the letters. They're worth the wade.
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