Note, 1. The day of death will be a day of wrath. It is a messenger of
God's wrath; therefore when Moses had meditated on man's mortality he
takes occasion thence to admire the power of God's anger, Ps. cx. 11.
It is a debt owing, not to nature, but to God's justice. After death
the judgment, and that is a day of wrath, Rev. vi. 17. 2. Riches will
stand men in no stead that day. They will neither put by the stroke nor
ease the pain, much less take out the sting; what profit will this
world's birth-rights be of then? In the day of public judgments riches
often expose men rather than protect them, Ezek. vii. 19. 3. It is
righteousness only that will deliver from the evil of death. A good
conscience will make death easy, and take off the terror of it; it is
the privilege of the righteous only not to be hurt of the second death,
and so not much hurt by the first.