John Trapp on Proverbs 12:28

Verſ. 28. In the way of righteouſneſs is life] And life (in any ſenſe) is a ſweet mercy, a precious indulgence. Life natural is but a little ſpot of time between two Eternities, before and after, but it is of great conſequence (for ex hoc momento pendet Aeternitas) and given us for this purpoſe, that glory may bee begun in grace, and wee have a further and further entrance into the Kingdome of heaven here, as Peter ſaith, 2 Ep. 1.11.

And in the path thereof there is no death] Chriſt hath unſtinged the firſt death, and made it of a puniſhment, a benefit;Mors janua vitae, porta coeli. Bern. of a poſtern to let out temporal life, a ſtreet-door to let in eternal life. Surely the bitterneſs of this death is paſt to the righteous, there is no gall in it (as the Hebrew word there ſignifies) nay there is hony in it, as once there was in the corps of Sampſons dead Lion. And for the ſecond death, there is no danger; for they ſhall paſs from the jaws of death, to the joyes of heaven; Yea, though hell had cloſed her mouth upon a childe of God, it could as little hold him, as the Whale could Jonah; it muſt (perforce) regurgitate, and render up ſuch a morſel.