ANSW. Death being threatened as the wages of sin, it is appointed
unto all men once to die; for that all have sinned.
QUEST. LXXXV. _Death being the wages of sin, why are not the
righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven
in Christ?_
ANSW. The righteous shall be delivered from death itself at the last
day, and even in death are delivered from the sting and curse of it;
so that, although they die, yet it is out of God’s love, to free
them perfectly from sin and misery; and to make them capable of
farther communion with Christ in glory, which they then enter upon.
In these answers we have an account,
I. Of the unalterable purpose of God, or his appointment that all men
once must die; which is also considered as the wages of sin.
II. It is supposed, that death has a sting and curse attending it with
respect to force.
III. It is the peculiar privilege of the righteous, that though they
shall not be delivered from death, yet this shall redound to their
advantage: For,