Thomas Boston says that, “death is one of those things that work together for good to them that love God (Rom. 8:28). When the body dies, the soul is perfected; the body of death goes off at the death of the body.”

He further says; “a dying day is a good day to a godly man. Yea, it is his best day; it is better to him than his birthday, or than the most joyous day which he ever had on earth.”

He then says; “it is their redemption day when the captives are delivered, when prisoners are set free.”

(Thomas Boston, Human Nature in its Fourfold State, pp. 356-358)