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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

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

himself by discourses but retired himself and unbosomed his heart and spread his condition before the Lord in prayer When but three weeks before his decease he was sore afflicted with extremity of head-ake and Colick that he began to find some impatience to seize on him he soon recollected and chekt himself saying How often and fervently have I besought the Lord that he would be pleased to fit and prepare mee for himself and his everlasting Kingdome and why then should I find fault and repine now when he thus really and effectually doth prepare me making mee by these very pains and torments loathe this wretched World so much the more and long for my happy change and dissolution and to be with my Redeemer and thus he continued for the most part even to his last hour which was July 13. 1655. in the seventy ninth year of his age looking death cheerfully in the face as of whom he was not afraid being implanted into Christ and thereby freed from the imbondaging fear of death alwaies almost speaking of the same and setting the remembrance of our latter end both before himself and others upon all occasions knowing there was no such effectuall means to make us apply our hearts to wisdome that is to say to the fear of God the only Antidote against all other fear And as in Troubles and Affliction hee shewed a great deal of filial submission and resignation to God so it was a comfort to all that conversed with him to see and observe his continuall thankfull remembrances of and chearfull rejoycing in Gods mercies and goodnesse both to the Church in generall and particular and to the Land and Nation wherein he lived as also to any of his dear friends and relations as well as to his own person loving both to hear and speak much of that Argument and ever and anon most feelingly exclaiming O what cause have wee to praise our good and mercifull God that yet preserveth yet affecteth yet delivers and favours us and passeth by and forgiveth our manifold infirmities transgressions and provocations aggravated with so much unthankfullness if yet we would love him and beleeve in him and yet walk in his fear obediently before him to our everlasting happinesse On Queen Elizabeths anniversarie Coronation day he would usually bid some friends and put them in mind of the great Mercy of God shewed to England on that day by quenching the fires in Smith field and continuing the Gospel ever since for so many years among us even beyond the number of years recorded in Scripture of an uninterrupted prosperous estate of the Church and then as also on his Birth-day and other joyfull occasions of friends meeting at his house he would often say he had desired their company to eat bread with him before the Lord as Jethro and Moses did in remembrance of such and such signal Mercies and Deliverances whereof his memory was a living Chronicle especially of those grand Deliverances both before and since the Reformation from under the great sufferings and bloody Persecutions in France and the low-Countries whereof he would often discourse in so punctuall and feeling a manner as if he had been an eye-witness yea a sharer in them taking many arguments thence of encouraging both himself and others to be still mindfull of them in bonds and miseries as being themselves in the body saying why their case might have been ours or may be yet who knows And instancing often in this particular with holy admiration and thankfullnesse that when his own Father for Religion sake being fain to flee for his life stood doubtfull whether like as many others did he should repair for shelter to the Palatinate and Frankendale or to England that yet God inclined his heart to chuse England for his place of refuge whereupon he would frequently inferre hee had great cause especially since their late sad condition in that place and Country in acknowledgement of that preserving mercie to have a fellow feeling of their Miseries wherein himself and his might have been involved together with them since God had not only kept and safeguarded him and his from the same but likewise abundantly blessed and protected him and them hitherto And therefore he was very mindfull to send relief to many of them from time to time Together with all these eminent graces God had likewise endued him with a large portion of Wisdome Judgement and Understanding in many things of moment and importance grounded on much experience observation and practise of his own for which he was deservedly much esteemed by men of no small place and account Hee brought still forth out of his Treasure old and new and knew so pertinently to produce compare and apply the same that it was great pleasure and no lesse profit and instruction to hear him The pious and indefatigable care and pains hee took in bringing up of his Children and governing his family in the fear and admonition of the Lord is hinted partly already His perpetual indeavour was to bring them into acquaintance and communion with God and to make them stand in filial awe and fear of him to read and meditate and take delight in the Word of God to be well grounded and setled in Religion and not shaken by every wind of Doctrin to avoid and flee all vain and idle courses companies and dalliances to be painfull carefull and diligent every one in his peculiar calling and imployment orderly and exact in all their affaires sober and frugal in the use of Gods good creatures full of bowels of compassion to the afflicted and distressed Members of Christ and to all that were in need and chearfully ready to communicate unto such loving and helpfull one to another obedient to all good orders submissive to the Magistrate respectfull to the Ministry Civil and upright towards all and watchful at all times to be in readiness when the Lord should call them hence to give an account of their Stewardship c. in all which he would say and exhort them to no more than himself continually endeavoured to practise before their eyes and that this his tender care towards them might yet extend beyond his life and he still speak to them and minde them of these sayings he left for them in writing by abundance of Letters to his nearest and dearest Relations from time to time especially in one of his last Papers written as it seems when he had set his House in order to be ready for the Lord a Copy whereof followeth after this Narrative such excellent instructions and admonitions as sheweth plainly as he took pains and care to leave them a comfortable Temporal estate so their Spiritual good estate was that he mainly wished their whole hearts possest of as his was for to enjoy communion with God and the abiding comfort thereof both in this life and that to come together with him A Letter of John Lamotte Esq to his Daughter and Grand-children written not long before