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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

death viz. sin and that entwisted even with his very Nature As by one man sin entered into the World and death by sin and so death passed upon all c. The holiest may cry out as those Sons of the Prophets O thou man of God death is in the pot death is in the body Bodies of Sin will become bodies of Death because sin is in the Soul as a Canker at the root that will kill the Tree as the Worm that smote Jonahs Gourd that made it wither away this drew out that Emphatical Quere What man is he that liveth and shall not see death Shall he deliver his soul himself from the hand of the grave A question that carries a Negative answer in the bowels of it q. d. no man even the most eminent beleeving or holiest for living can free himself from the tasting of death Vse Look not you now that are Beleevers to be freed from the common fare of all real Christians viz. Death count upon this Dye I must I know not how soon Q. But if my faith exempt me not from death what avails me to be a Beleever Sol. Much every way chiefly because by Beleeving though thou be not freed from the stroke yet sure thou art to be protected from the sting of death so that even in the very jaws of death a Beleever may 1. holily exult O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory the sting of death is sin the strength of sin is the Law but thanks be to God that gives us victory through Christ Jesus our Lord 2. yea sure thou art to be delivered from the Second Death thy faith interesting of thee in the first Resurrection and implanting thee into Christ it frees thee from Condemnation He that beleeveth on the Son hath everlasting life viz. even here someway in possession as well as hereafter fully in reversion Besides thou maist be certain the condition of death is altered to thee it being not now formally the wages of sin but turned into a part of those advantagious chattles that do belong unto thee 1 Cor. 3.23 All is thine even Death as well as other things Death to thee is only the final period to all thy miseries and the ready inlet to thy full and eternal happiness Now God permits his Decree to take hold upon thee for divers gracious ends and purposes viz. 1 To cast out perfectly the remainders of sin that even after our Conversion do still abide within us When the Priest under the Law had been to view the house infected with the Plague of the fretting Leprosie the house was to be broken down stones the timber and all the mortar of it Jesus Christ sees the fretting Leprosie of Sin to be in thee that will not be outed of its Habitation till that earthly Tabernacle of thine be pulled down 2 To put an end to all the perplexing miseries that do befall thee here Whilst Israel was in the Wilderness they were infested with fiery Serpents never totally freed from them till they came to Canaan so whilst thou art in the wilderness of the World thou art lyable to the stingings of many fiery Serpents the fiery Serpents of Sin and Misery Absolute immunity will be obtained by Death from them and not before 3 To be a gate for thy Admission or entrance into Heaven Death indeed to on unbeleever is the door of Hel but to a Beleever it is the entrance of Heaven this in eagered Paul with so much panting to be dissolved and to be with Christ what Jacob spake in another case is true here of the death of a Beleever this is the gate of heaven Vse 2. Yet know this for thy comfort though death be unavoydable dye thou must yet thou maist assure thy self thou shalt dye in peace which leads me to the manner how Abraham shall be gathered unto his Fathers which is the Elixir of the Promise He shall go in peace whence we may observe Doct. That it is a Beleevers transcendent Priviledge to go unto his Fathers or to dye in peace For the profitable handling of this truth 1 I le endeavour to shew you what is meant by going to his Fathers or dying in peace 2 I le study clearly to make it out 1 That it is a priviledge to dye in peace 2 A transcendent priviledge belonging to Beleevers 3 I le cast in something by way of improvement Q. 1. What is meant by going to his Fathers or dying in peace Sol. The Phrase is of different construction in different places of Scripture I finde it sometimes opposed to a violent immature or forcible kind of end Thus to Zedekiah as bad as he was it was promised Thou shalt not dye by the Sword viz. a violent but thou shalt dye in peace i. e. come unto a Natural death Jer. 34.4 5. so David advising Solomon to cut off Joab by a forcible death he useth almost a parallel expression not in a promissory but minatory way Let not his hoary head go down to the grave in peace i. e. let him dye a violent death and be rolled to his grave in bloud But sometimes I finde it opposed to an uncomfortable end and then to dye in peace is to dye in the sense of inward peace or in an estate of reconciliation and this I look upon as the common priviledge of all beleevers Josiah had this in promise though hee dyed of his Wounds yet he dyed in a reconciled condition with God and this is the main of the Promise to Abraham here compared with vers 6. Abraham beleeved in the Lord and he accounted it to him for righteousness being now justified through faith he had peace with God And when he comes to dye he shall dye in peace being sensible of his standing in the grace and favour of God and resting on the invaluable merits of Jesus Christ whose day he saw and upon that account with a placid spirit he resigned up his Soul unto him Q. 2 How it may be made out that to dye in peace is a priviledge belonging to beleevers 1 We call that a Priviledge which is an Immunity granted to some of favour and denied to others of justice Wee all deserve as to dye so to dye with fear terrour and amazement but our God in mercy exempts Beleevers from the common Law of death as it is the King of Terrours and vouchsafeth them this favour to depart in peace when others depart with horror 2 This we say is the Beleevers priviledge for as for 1 Unbeleevers and all wicked men whatsoever there is no peace to the wicked saith my God they are as the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast out in re●a●d dirt an elegant Similitude whereby the Prophet setteth forth to the life the restlesness of wicked men though the Sea hath no Winds nor Tempests from without to infest it yet it is restless of its

the ordinary term of the oldest age Promises passed of general Mercies to particular persons may bee fulfilled over and over again as that I will never leave thee nor forsake thee made first to Joshua extended by Paul to all Beleevers and in them daily fulfilled The like I may say of this Promise here in some sense there is somewhat that may be enlarged to all in Christ as to go to their Fathers in peace though for the latter branch of it it be only made good to some not to all as to be buried in a good old Age since all attain not to that period in the letter of it yet in both the Branches of it it may some way be accommodated to our deceased Brother as in the sequel of our Discourse will plainly by Divine assistance be made out unto you The words may be lookt upon with a double aspect 1. Relative 2. Absolute 1 Relative in reference to what goes before and follows after so they contain a cordial given to Abraham against a fainting fit that might surprise him God had passed many Promises to Abraham in the former part of this Chapter 1 I am thy Shield and thy exceeding great reward I am so and will continue to be so for the passage in the Hebrew is Elliptical and the Supplement may be made up by the future as well as by the present time or we may take in both I am and will be so unto thee 2 He will give him an Heir out of his own Bowels whence should arise an innumerable Issue as the Stars in Heaven for number or multitude vers 4 5. 3 He will bestow the Land of Canaan for their Revenue and that by Covenant vers 7.18 a large income for to support them Abraham seems astonish'd at the hearing of these things and Questions Whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it vers 8. a question that sprang not out of diffidence or a●●solute unbeleef but out of an holy Admiration as one extasied with joy and desiring more fully to be informed about it Sol. To this God gives a double answer 1 Visional 2. Verbal 1 Visional They should have it when they had been first grievously afflicted many of them slain many chopt in peeces which seems to be something of the Mystical meaning of those Ceremonies in that Sacrifice by which the Covenant should be confirmed vers 10. viz. the dividing of the Sacrifice and laying each pe●ce one against another and when the Birds of Prey should come down i. e. Pharaoh and the Aegyptians fall on to devour them the Lord would raise up one of Abrahams Seed implicitly Moses to fray them away and to deliver his Off spring vers 11. they should not want protection 2 Verbal vers 13 14. which make out the former Mystery Know of a certainty thy Seed shall bee a stranger in a Land that is not theirs viz. Egypt and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years and also that Nation whom they shall serve will I judge and afterwards shall they come out with great substance Probably the Searcher of all hearts saw Abraham in some doubt why livery and seisin or peaceable possession of that Land should be deferred so long Hee therefore assigns the cause in the Verse after the Text for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full He was minded to root them up and that none might in after times censure his proceedings as injurious he will suffer them to fill up the measure of their iniquitie that they might be without excuse and the mouthes of all stopped at the beholding of their total extirpation Q. It may be yet some scruple might rest upon the spirit of Abraham what shall become of me when all these evils betide my posterity A. The Lord bids him rest satisfied for before all these evils surprise thy Seed thou shalt go to thy Fathers in peace And hence the best Expositors render the Hebrew Particle translated by ours as copulative discretively yet thou shalt go or but thou shalt go to thy Fathers in peace This Relative consideration of the words may yeeld unto us this profitable instruction That Doct. The Lord in his abundant Mercy sometimes takes away his by death from the beholding of future evils This we see is promised here to Abraham Lest his heart should rend in peeces upon the sight of all the miseries that should befall his Off-spring in future times hee shall first go to his Fathers in peace The like for substance was promised to pious Josiah long after when evils were approaching apace the apprehension whereof did much scare and deject him God cast in this Promise for his support Behold I will gather thee to thy Fathers and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place and the inhabitants of the same the bare sight of which had he lived to have seen it would probably have broken his heart viz. the sight of Religion ruined his Sons captivated his Kingdom rooted up c. God therefore removes him by death from the beholding of any of these Now that it savours of abundant mercy to take away the righteous from beholding evils to come let us consider First Is it not a great mercy that a man shall be removed before he come to be a spectator of other mens sins the seeing and hearing of all the unlawful deeds of those wretched Sodomites amongst whom Lot lived was a trouble of heart unto him and keeps him as it were upon the rack This drew not a few but many brinish tears yea rivers of them from the eys of holy David professing that rivers of tears ran down his eyes because men kept not Gods Law This filled the hearts of those Mourners in Ezekiel with heart-rending sighs and their tongues with heaven-peircing cries for all the abominations that were done in the midst of Jerusalem the more grace the more sighing and sobbing weeping and wailing for other mens sins God snatches away a gracious Father Master Husband or Prince from the beholding of the gracelesse practises of his Issue Servants wife or subjects that would bee a corrosive unto him Secondly Doth it not savour much of Mercy to be taken away from beholding of other mens punishments was it not upon this account that the long liv'd Patriarches were taken away by death before the flood came yea Methuselah the year of the deluge if that Chronologer bee not out lest his eyes should see that dismall sight the drowning of all flesh I perswade my self that when Abraham lookt upon the smoak of Sodom and the Country about it ascending as the smoak of a furnace it did occasion no little grief of heart unto him and what the beholding of the miseries of Jerusalem in the besieging sacking and ruining of it did create to Holy

Jeremy his book of the Lamentations penned upon that dolefull occasion may abundantly declare The death of Jacob and Joseph before the oppressions came on and strange cruelties of the Egyptians made seisure upon their off-spring savoured of mercy and it was a great blessing for Augustine to bee taken away by a naturall death when Genserik had besieged Hippo that hee might not see the cruelties of the Vandalls that were breaking in upon the Church of God and for Pareus that hee should die at Heidelberg before the enemy was Master of it a place that hee so intirely loved Thirdly Is it not a great mercy to bee taken away from the tasting of evills in their own persons that they may not feel the smart of grievous and direfull Judgements he that is omniscient foresees calamities and judgements a coming which we cannot see He took notice of the deluge in his own decree before the Cataracts of Heaven were opened hee therefore snatches away those that he was minded to secure lest they should be in wrapt in the common calamity Our God rich in mercy deals as a prudent rich man when hee sees the fire come near his own habitation hee removes his Jewells or his treasures into another place where they may bee secured from danger or as a carefull Husbandman in catching weather in Harvest when hee sees the Heavens be clouded or a storm up hee will do his utmost to get his Corn into his barn if possible before it bee wet Wee read of the Egyptians when they heard that God would cause it to rain a grievous hail such as had not been in Egypt since the foundation of it to that present hee that feared the word of the Lord amongst the Servants of Pharaoh made his Servants and his Cattel flie into their houses so dealeth our God when hee sees a storm a comming hee driveth in his that as they shared not with others in their sins so neither shall they partake with them in their sufferings yea even that Heathen observed that when God brings on any remarkable destruction or Alteration in a Nation hee first takes away them that are good in it Vse I shall dismiss this Relative observation with this word of improvement Lay to heart the Lords taking away of any godly professors at any time for albeit the dispensation savours of mercy to them yet many times it proves ominous to them that are left behind when Swallows flie away winter is then approaching Their death indeed is a blessing unto themselves for blessed are they that dye in the Lord and not only they that die for him yet mostly it portends evill to survivers however it shall bee well with themselves as is here promised unto Abraham which leadeth mee to the second The Absolute consideration of the words which affords two soul cheering Cordialls 1 Thou shalt go to thy Fathers in Peace 2 And be buried in a good old age A couple of Promises or a couple of Branches of the same Promise that would require a couple of hours for the unfolding of them to view them exactly I must deal as a Travailer that is on his way who may glance his eye here or there but makes no stay till hee comes to his Journyes end no more shall I till through help from my God I shall have spoken something of both these as they lie before you And for the opening of the first we shall inquire Quest. 1 What is meant by his going to his Fathers Was hee to go back to Haran or Ur of the Chaldees in his life or bee carried thither to be interred after death or was hee to go to that place whither their soules went upon the dissolution of their bodies Sol. 1. Abraham was not to go to his Fathers first In Body the place of his locall Interment was to be Macpelah in Canaan and not any other place secondly Nor in Soul that removed to the immediate fruition of God in glory whereas many of his Ancestors were Idolators serving other Gods and doubtlesse many of them died in their Paganish condition 2 But the sense of this expression is Abraham shall die that 's the meaning of the Hebraism thou shalt go to thy Fathers that is corporall death shall arrest thee as well as it did do them Now if you compare these words with verse the sixt where wee read that Abraham beleeved in the Lord and it was counted to him for Righteousness though hee were a beleever in Christ yet hee must go to his Fathers that is hee must die as well as they this may inform us Doct. That albeit faith in Christ doth exempt Beleevers from the second yet it will not free any from the strak of the first death Abraham though a Beleever yea the highest in the forme of Beleevers being the Father of the faithfull yet hee must die and it is no wonder since the Decree is gone forth from God which is farre more irrevocable than the laws of the Medes and Persians It is appointed unto all men Beleevers as well as unbeleevers once to die When the Scripture saith all none is exempted some indeed have had a writ of Privilege from some kinds of death yet none from death in the main Moses was freed from the bitings of fiery Serpents as Magistrates sometimes through mercy are privileg'd from death in times of common mortality yet death surprized them in the end for Moses the servant of the Lord died in the land of Moab Daniel was secured from being devoured by those hungry Lions yet his body became a prey to Death as well as the bodies of other Prophets Elisha was spared from being torn in peeces by the Shee-bears out of the Wood yet Death took him away in the end 2 This Decree hath made seisure in all Ages even where faith hath been in an eminent way as in Moses witness his undertaking that difficult Embassage to Pharaoh to deliver Israel out of Aegypt Faith in the end did eat up all his fears and engaged him in that difficult work yet Death at last did arrest him as was hinted before so in Job a great Practitioner in the life of faith that made him draw up this Resolution Though he slay me yet will I trust in him David a Beleever a man after Gods own heart and yet Death overtook him and Paul who professed I live yet not I but Christ lives in me and the life that I now live I live by the faith of the Son of God c. yet did not death surprise him I might be endless here to shew you how Death attached Beleevers both before as well as under the Law yea even in the time of the Gospel had the debt of Sin been taken off and the Decree rescinded that Pursevant of Death would not go on daily to Arrest Beleevrrs at Gods Sute Thirdly The holiest Beleever hath in his body the Principle of

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