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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

John La Motte Esq Cittizen of London borne j. May 1577 and Deceased July 13 1655. 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 M.A. Preacher of the Gospell Unto which is added a short Narrative of his Life and Death 2 KIN. 20.1 Set thy house in order for thou shall dye and not live JOB 21.22 Acquaint thy self now with God and be at peace thereby good shall come unto thee LONDON Printed by R. I. for Tho. Newberry and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the three Golden Lyons in Corn-hill 1656. TO THE Right VVorshipfull the truely Religious THE Lady Hester Honywood AND To her most hopefull Nephew Mr. Maurice Abbot of the Inner Temple Daughter Grand-son Co-heires of John Lamotte Esq c. Much honoured THe sweetnesse of Communion with God whereby Saints taste and see how good the Lord is is more clearly discerned by their own personall experience than can be declared by any verball expressions This was the highest pitch of Adams happinesse during his estate of concreated integrity that hee was admitted to the enjoyment of this grand priviledge what is it then for any of his fallen Off-spring to be restored to this great exaltation And yet we know that Beleevers by faith in Christ are reinstated in this advancement and are many times inabled to say and that feelingly truly our fellowshp or our Communion is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the Heaven of Heavens to Saints Triumphant and Heaven here on this side Heaven to Saints Militant Expectants of Heaven hereafter Vnutterable is the Contentment that man finds sometimes in his Cordiall acquaintance with an Antient Fast and Religious Friend to whom he may freely and fully unbosome himself and from whom he may receive suitable and seasonable advice with all candor and faithfullnesse upon all occasions Now if words cannot to the life hold out that satisfaction that man findeth in his converse with man like unto himself is it any wonder if I am not able fully to display that heart-ravishing delight which the renewed soul meeteth withall whilest it nourisheth humble and holy Communion with God the high and lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity It is agreed on by all that holy familiarity with him is full of spirituall solace though all my language be too short compleatly to describe before you how satisfactory and contentfull it is How sweet are those holy Parlies with God in praier and how pleasant their returns far pleasanter to a gracious than the returns of ships richly laden with rarest Commodities to a Carnall heart how delightfull are the droppings of the Sanctuary whereby the souls of Saints become as watered Gardens as so many Edens and whereby they come to hear of joy and gladnesse so that the bones which God at any time hath broken begin to rejoice How ensuring are the Incomes of the Spirit in that sealing Ordinance of the Lords Supper wherein the truely penitent and beleeving Soul looking up to Christ by the Eye of Faith whom hee hath peirced and being in heavinesse for him c. receives the pledge of the Remission of his sins and of all other Covenant-Mercies which more exhilerates him with heart reviving joy then the sight of a Pardon doth a condemned Malefactor It was upon this account that the heart of David was filled with such Pantings as the Hart after the water-brooks to come and appear before God in soul-reviving Ordinances and that Marquesse of Vico Galeatius that eminent Confessor when offered Golden Mountains of Honours and Riches how resolutely did he reply their mony perish with them that think all the honours of Italy c. to be worth one hours Communion with God at Geneva a place wherein Religion flourished Now how abundant that worthy and experimentall Christian was to whom you owe your extraction as branches to their root in nourishing communion with God and how sweet hee found it both in his life and at his death I need not relate to you in speciall who were full well acquainted with the manner of his holy Conversation in his Life and of his comfortable departure at his end My sute to you is Honoured Lady Who have made such Eminent progresse in Grace Labor yet more and more to imitate your deceased Father in walking in all the waies of holiest Communion with God treading dayly in his steps of Soul resignation Faith Patience Charity Zeal and all other Christian graces whereof he left an exemplary Copy to you and your hopefull Issue to write after I need not suggest that it is constancy which is the Crowning grace Honoured Sir Though you have attained as yet to a little more than a fourth of the days that your Indulgent Grand-Father arrived at yet hee hath left you as a Coheir of his Estate so I hope of his graces also strive therefore that hee may in all his soul-adorning endowments live in you that as hee and many others looked upon you with a hopefull eye whilest hee lived so the world may see you more and more to answer all those blooming hopes now he is removed from you To conclude my humble addresse to you both is that you would be mindfull of all the holy Counsells and savory advertisements wherein he abounded towards you and among others those that he communicated to you frequently by his letters and forget not that Letter added unto his life whereby being dead he yet speaketh to you and then doubt not but there will bee a full return into your bosomes of all the prayers which he so fervently and frequently darted up to Heaven in your behalfs which is the perswasion Of your Worships much Obliged in the Lord. FULK BELLERS Decemb. 24. 1655. ABRAHAMS Interment OR The good Old mans Burial in a good old Age. GEN 15.15 And thou shalt go unto thy Fathers in peace and bee buried in a good old age SOlomon tells us It is better to go into the house of Mourning than to go to the house of Feasting for that is the end of all men and the living the godly living will lay it to heart The Lord hath turned his own House into a House of Mourning unto us upon this sad account viz. the interment of him who as he was much esteemed of by the Citizens of this Renowned City in general so in special of this place whereof he hath been an ancient and worthy Parishioner and peculiarly by that great Congregation ●hereof he hath been a vigilant Elder near thirty years to●●ther one aged in grace as well as years unto whom ●his personal Promise to the Father of the Faithful was made good though not for the number of years that Abraham lived up unto yet for that time that Moses reckons up as

in the days of thy youth remember to acquaint thy self with him and to make peace that so good may come unto thee in time of age get grace in youth and become obedient unto thy Parents which probably may prepare a way for thy Burial in a good old age 2 If Youth be elapsed or run out in vanity yet 1 Now presently repent repent of sins of Youth and set upon the ways of Holiness Paul had been in his youth a Persecutor injurious a Blasphemer yet after repentance what a foundation did hee lay of a good old age labouring more abundantly than others he had been zealous to draw others to Hell so now he was as forward to win others to Heaven for Augustine how vain vilde vicious sinful was his youth wallowing himself in all Licentiousness as his confessions speak where how doth he bewail himself yet after repentance what an useful Instrument was he in the Church of Christ many admire and that deservedly Chrysostoms golden Rollings Cyprians Martyr-like spirit running through all his Works but we may behold these nay more than these in Augustine after his repentance 2 Rest not till thou be implanted into Jesus Christ our ingrafting into him intitles us to dye in peace and to live not only long here but even to eternity hereafter as freeing us from Condemnation and ensuring us of admission into Heaven The Science ingrafted into the tree liveth as long as the tree and we ingrafted in Christ as long as Christ and that will be to eternity if our implantation qualifie us for eternity it cannot but qualifie us for the longest date of life here below 3 Live piously being implanted Piety not only hath the promises of this life but of that that is to come impiety cuts asunder the thread of our lives but Piety prolongs our days as Solomon witnesseth My Son let thine heart keep my Commandements for length of days and long life and peace shall they adde to thee 4 Live temperately lest thou diggest thy Grave with thine own teeth sobriety being the best natural means for the prolongation of life as is obvious to experience 3 If thou art a verging or inclining towards old age and art implanted into Christ. 1 Shew thy self to be a tree of Gods planting in all those fruits of the Spirit mentioned by the Apostle as God hath made thee good by Grace so be thou abundant in all gracious actings in all Christian duties Fruit-bearing trees are seldom cut down till they become fruitless 2 Let thy life be a life of Prayer and wrastling with God among other things that God would not cast thee off in the time of age nor forsake thee when thy strength faileth yea let thy life be a perpetual meditation of death and all the days of thy appointed time do thou wait upon God until thy change shall come 3 Get old Simeons light or his clear sight of Christ by faith when thou hast once obtained this thou wilt then be panting with him and crying Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace old Abraham was then happy when he saw the future day of Christ by the Prospective-glass of faith through the interval of two thousand years distance and no wonder that he rejoyced men go to Hell with their eyes shut but to Heaven with their eyes open 4 Wait then for old Pauls Crown if in sincerity thou art able to say The time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith thou maist then conclude henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give unto me at that day and to all that love his appearing if constantly thou perseverest and goest on in the ways of faith and love and holiness thou maist expect the accomplishment of this Promise unto thee to go to thy Fathers in peace and to be buried in a good old age if the Lord see it meet for thee A Short Narrative of the Life and Death OF JOHN LAMOTTE Esq JOhn Lamotte Esq sometimes Alderman of the City of London was born at Colchester in Essex May 1. 1577. his Father was Francis Lamotte Son of Baldwin Lamotte of Ypres in Flanders who in the time of the great Persecution in the Low Countries under Duke D' Alva was driven out of his Native Country and came together with his Wife Mary to shelter themselves and to enjoy the free profession of the true Religion for which they had abandoned all their Temporal very considerable goods and enjoyments under the protection of that famous Nursing-mother of Gods afflicted Children in those bloudy times Queen Elizabeth here in England in the fourth year of her Reign taking up their residence at Colchester where he lived many years in very good esteem and was very forward and industrious for the setting up and promoting of the great Manufacture there for the Publick good and God blessed him in the same and in a hopeful Issue untill he dyed in a good age at London Now as both these Parents had made Piety their greatest interest and the Freedome of Religion their best Purchase so they were ever exceeding sollicitous and diligent to season their Children and this their Son especially from the very Cradle with the fear and nurture of the Lord and that with such blessed success on him that having Piety instilled into him by their means and publick Ordinances through Gods Grace he never departed from it to his dying day but proved most exemplary therein through all the course and relations of his life so that even in his younger years he never was given to nor delighted with those vain and sinful Sports and Pastimes to which youth is ordinarily so prone to and so hard to be weaned from His Recreation was commonly to turn from one honest or pious employment unto another as from that of his Calling being brought up timely to Trade and Merchandize and in which he was always very careful and industrious to the reading of the Bible and other good Books Meditation and learning of Languages acquainting himself with several of the best Histories especially such as treated of the Persecutions and Deliverances of the Church of God and the Propagation of the Gospel all which he made in a manner his own such delight he took both in the perusal and rehearsal of the same on all occasions and yet omitting no publick opportunities whereby he might nourish communion with God at any time He would often bless God that according to his earnest prayers when he came first up to London hee had kept him from bad company and from all allurements and engaging occasions of haunting Taverns and the like places whereby so many hopeful young men come to be undone Being grown up to some greater maturity of years and Grace and acquaintance with God and beginning to Trade