"A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth" (Ecclesiastes 7:1). This is only true of those that have a good work of grace upon them, and so are meet for heaven. The righteousness of Christ is on them and so have a title to it. They are such who have hope in their death, and die in faith and die in the Lord. Their death is better than their birth. At their birth they come into the world under the imputation and guilt of sin, with a corrupt nature; are defiled with sin, and under the power of it, liable in themselves to condemnation and death for it. At the time of their death they go out justified from sin through the righteousness of Christ, all being expiated by His sacrifice, and pardoned for His sake; they are washed from the filth of sin by the blood of Christ, and are delivered from the power and being of it by the Spirit and grace of God; and are secured from condemnation and the second death.
At their coming into the world they are liable to sin yet more and more; at their going out they are wholly freed from it. At the time of their birth they are born to trouble, and are all their days exercised with it, incident to various diseases of the body, have many troubles in the world, and from the men of it; many conflicts with a body of sin and death, and harassed with the temptations of Satan; but at death they are delivered from all these, enter into perfect peace and unspeakable joy; rest from all their labors and toils, and enjoy uninterrupted communion with God, Father, Son, and Spirit, angels, and glorified saints.