Death, the good Mans gain. [ 489]
IN the Ceremonial Law, Levit. 25. there was an year they accompted the year of Iubilee, and this was with the poor Iews a very acceptable year,* 1.1 because that every man that had lost or sold his Lands upon the blowing of a Trumpet, re∣turned, and had possession of his estate again, and so was recovered out of all the extremities in which he lived before. In this life we are just such as those poor men of Israel, rifled, plundered, spoiled, in a manner and condition every way straitned; now Death is our Iubilee, and when the Trumpet begins to sound, life is then loss; Death is the good mans advantage, then it is that he enjoyes a better state than ever he had before:* 1.2 What though Death be to the wicked as the Rod in Moses hand, that was turned into a Serpent, yet to the godly it shall be like that of Eliah, a wand to waft them into a better life: then it is that the funeral of their vices, shall be the resurrection of all their gracious actions.