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<p>Note, 1. The <i>day of death</i> will be a <i>day of wrath</i>. It is a messenger of God’s wrath; therefore when Moses had meditated on man’s mortality he takes occasion thence to admire <i>the power of God’s anger</i>, <a class="bibleref" title="Ps.90.11" href="/passage/?search=Ps.90.11">Ps. 90:11</a>. It is a debt owing, not to nature, but to God’s justice. <i>After death the judgment</i>, and that is a <i>day of wrath</i>, <a class="bibleref" title="Rev.6.17" href="/passage/?search=Rev.6.17">Rev. 6:17</a>. 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, <a class="bibleref" title="Ezek.7.19" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.7.19">Ezek. 7:19</a>. 3. It is righteousness only that will <i>deliver from</i> the evil of <i>death</i>. 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.</p>
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