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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27364	Abrahams interment, or, The good old-mans buriall in a good old age opened in a sermon at Bartholomews Exchange, July 24, 1655, at the funerall of the worshipfull John Lamotte, Esq., sometimes alderman of the city of London / by Fulk Bellers ... ; unto which is added a short narrative of his life and death.	Bellers, Fulk, b. 1605 or 6.; La Motte, John, 1570?-1655.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1826; ESTC R18215	32,052	49

for himself his singular care and exactness industry and discretion was soon taken notice of and he had more credit when he began than divers that had lived in pretty good repute before him every one was ready and even desirous to trust him and deal with him which great advantage he nevertheless used very soberly undertaking no more than he was well able to manage and minding what once he had undertaken with all the vigilancy and attendance such employments and the duty of his Calling did require and the blessing of God was evidently upon all his ways and affairs yet so that as he was not hasty to be rich he would often say hee was not hastily rich By Gods good providence and direction he was afterwards guided to Marry a party of like good and pious education and disposition and of a Stock likewise tried and grown up under Persecution Mistris Anne Tivelin whose Parents had sheltered themselves at Canterbury she was then the Widdow of Mr. David King Merchant of whom she had Mr. Ezekias King yet living the pious and learned Minister of Fulmore in Cambridgeshire with this Consort Mr. Lamotte lived well and comfortably many years and they had together several gracious Children eight in all whereof six two Sons and four Daughters dyed in their yonger years and only two Daughters most piously and vertuously educated lived to married estate the elder Hester being wedded first to John Manning Esq an eminent Merchant of this City by whom she had three Children but none surviving him and after his decease to Sir Thomas Honywood Knight of Markshall in Essex both living yet happily together beloved and honoured of all that know them farre and near together with their hopeful Issue two Sons and one Daughter the remainder of seven Children they have had together the younger Daughter Elizabeth was married to that worthy Gentleman Master Maurice Abbot Son to Sir Maurice Abbot once an Honourable Alderman and Lord Mayor of this City and Brother to those two famous Abbots George sometimes Arch bishop of Canterbury and learned Robert Bishop of Salisbury and by him she had that hopeful Son and studious Gentleman Mr. Maurice Abbot the present Coheir with his Aunt besides three others dying young as she also her self was not long enjoyed and dyed exceedingly bewailed for her singular parts piety and goodness Thus though Mr. Lamotte left but one only Daughter surviving and four Grand-children yet he saw 22 of his of-spring His first wife deceasing about the year 1626. he married again the year after M●is Elizabeth Monk the widdow of Levinus Monk Esquire one of the six Clerks a Gentleman of rare parts trust and experience in stare-affaires in King James his time with her he lived eighteen years but had no issue by her During all this time as he advanced still in years piety experience and estate so he was through the mercy of God accordingly respected passing through and bearing all the eminent offices in his Parish Company and elsewhere in the City and Commonwealth until he was chosen Alderman besides the Eldership of the Dutch Church here wherein he served that Congregation neer thirty years together with that exemplarie integrity of zeal as will not easily be forgotten as also in all the rest he still demeaned himself unblameably equally desirous and zealous still to furher and advance godlinesse and honesty and to withstand and reform abuses and iniquity of all kinds The Love unto and constant attendance upon the Word of God in publick and private for the upholding and cherishing communion with God by hearing and reading the Scriptures and meditating therein had so possest and filled his soul that most of his discourses and Letters were most savourly seasoned with it and he would often expresse a great deal of heart-grief and astonishment at most mens heedlessenesse in duties so highly and neerly concerning their everlasting Welfare And how real his piety and acquaintance with God was appeared sufficiently as by many other discoveries so also by those streams of true Christian charity which uncessantly issued from him and which made him not only willing and ready to impart and communicate liberally in that kind himself but also to sollicite and stir up others perpetually setting all as it were on fire of compassion that came neer him especially where and whensoever any publick calamity befell the people and Church of God No care 〈◊〉 pains no cost charge or trouble was too much then unto him to testify his sympathizing bowells in and for their sorrows and afflictions whether at home or abroad whereof especially since the year 1620. the respective Persecutions and Troubles in France at Rochel in the Valtelin in Bohemia in Germany and more particularly in the lower and upper Palatinate and therein above other places the long continued distresses of the City of Frankendale besides many other cases nearer home in England Scotland Ireland all along even to the late cruell and barbarous massacre of the poor Waldenses in Piedmont could make up and shew forth in this One Member such a living Character and pattern of real Charity as alasse we see but few now a dayes to the no small discredit of our profession And God having given him such largenesse of heart and freenesse of hand he gave also unto him understanding to manage all his affaires with order and discretion that he knew both where and when to spare and to spend whereby he was enabled still to do the more good finding and acknowledging alwaies both the temporal and spirituall returns and comforts of doing the same and that made him alwaies as God blessed him to lay aside a proportion for charitable uses which he as carefully distributed afterward But if God was pleased at any time to exercise him with losses or crosses of any kind whereof he had his share too among other of Gods Children as well in his Trade and Estate now and then by severall casualties by Sea and Land at home and abroad in his severall functions and relations and especially in his body by diverse great infirmities and sicknesses principally toward and in the latter part of his life yet he alwaies shewed abundance of patience and quiet submission to the ever-good hand and pleasure of his heavenly Father and faithfull Redeemer comforting himself very much with the examples of Jacob Joseph Job David and others of Gods Saints and servants in all ages with whose histories he was exactly acquainted praysing God still that in respect of his outward man he so long vouchsafed him the benefit of his sight and hearing in that comfortable measure whereby he could partake still of his holy Ordinances both in publick and private and for his inner man that in all his troubles and afflictions God never long with-held his gracious and Fatherly countenance from him in Jesus Christ wherein he found comfort sufficient to allay all his grief and prevent all murmuring in his troubles he did not much vent