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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

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

that the bodies of Saints sown in corruption shall be raised in incorruption sown in dishonour shall be raised in glory sown in weakness shall be raised in power And hence the Burial-place among the Greek Fathers is called the sleeping place or the Dormitory of Saints they only sleep and therefore they will awake again they still though in the dust are united unto Jesus Christ and shall be reunited with their Souls that ascending to Heaven they may be ever with the Lord. Q. 2. What is meant by a good old age S. 1. The Notion here rendred Old Age properly imports gray hairs and by a Metonymy of the Adjunct Old Age gray hairs being the ordinary discoverers of it for that observation of that Rabbine that gray hairs is more than old Age because as he saith a man at sixty is come to old Age and one at seventy to gray hairs after which a man becomes decrepit This is but his meer Phansie for how many even with us come to gray hairs before fifty years some before forty years of age But to wave this it is sufficient for us to know that in the Old Testament they are used as Synonimaes i. e. words signifying the same thing and that by old age we understand the winter of mans life the evening or Sun-set of his days the utmost period of his time on earth Other Ages have still another Age to succeed them as Childe hood is succeeded by Youth Youth by Man-hood Manhood by Old Age but old Age hath no other Successor but Death it being the last declension or degree of the longest life 2 By a good Old Age we mean not barely a great age though I confess old Age is an Embleme some way of Gods Eternity whence he is stiled the Ancient of days and therefore so described his raiment was as white as snow and the hair of his head as white as wool a Periphrasis of old age and besides old age hath been honoured by God in choosing men of age for weighty imployments as God chose Moses and Aaron when they were stricken in years to lead Israel out of Aegypt and when he would establish a standing Judicatory in Israel he would have seventy men of the Elders of Israel gathered unto him Moreover their Judges were old men that sate in the Gate to hear and determine the Causes of the people that were brought before them nay I acknowledge that old age is some way venerable in it self which was the ground of that Command Rise up before the hoary head and honour the face of the old man those of Gadera built a Temple to old age because of the reverence and respect they bore unto it 2 Much less do we mean by a good old age the turning over of many years in a way of sin old age cannot be good where old men are naught sin being a reproach to any people or persons whether they be old or young to see men stricken with age and over-run with covetousness when all the Limbs of their bodies grow old only covetousness grows young which makes them afraid sometimes to use what God hath cast in upon them and the less of the way they have yet to travel the more they are a coveting provision for the way or to see an old man over-run with pettishness frowardness crosness that no man can speak to him no more than to Nabal or to see the fruits of the old man old corruptions to remain in strength a man abiding in old age an old Swearer an old Drunkard an old Cheater an old Athiest contemning the Word or Ministry c. In brief when a man remains an old weather-beaten sinner though his age be continued to a hundred years it can never be a good old age unto him for a sinner of an hundred years old shall be accursed 3 Nor yet do I mean that old age is therefore good because only attended with Corporal or outward good things such as are Health and Strength though I deny not to be lively in old age and to injoy a good measure of them to be a great blessing when a man is able to say with Caleb who professed I am this day fourscore and five years old and yet I am as strong this day as in the days that Moses sent me as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war both to go out and to come in it is a great mercy but yet common with Christians and Pagans as with Masinissa in Tully Neither do I look upon old age as only good when attended with Riches and Honour though these make old age sometimes the more pleasant when Grace is present for the managing of them yea I acknowledge old age to be uncomfortable where a competency of Creature-comforts are wanting however if Grace be absent though Riches be present old age cannot be good 4 But old age is then good 1 When men are good in old age I do not look that any man is or can be good of himself for there is none good but God but men are then good when they are made good by the sanctifying Spirit of God or plainer thus Then old age is good when crowned with Grace the best of good things hear Solomons determination A gray head is a crown of glory if it be found in a way of righteousness When a man hath put off the Old Man and put on the New which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness when he hath the Image of God repaired in him which makes him renew his youth like the Eagle I shall not dispute the manner of it how the Eagle doth renew her youth whether it be by soaring aloft into the Element of Fire and there leaving her Feathers and casting her self speedily into the Sea whereby she grows young again yet there is this Morally in it when the Soul soars aloft to injoy communion with God who is as a consuming Fire out of Christ the Soul casts it self into the sea of Mercy into that Fountain opened for Sin and for uncleanness whereby it doth renew its Spiritual youth or whether it be by knocking off her beak the upper part of her bill by beating it against the Rock which Morally we may thus apply when the Soul findes corruption in it self it gets to the Rock Jesus Christ and there repenting and beleeving yea by the highest actings of Faith indeavouring to knock off its beak its inordinate desires to the World a Saint becomes clad with the Sun of Righteousness and presently the Moon is under his feet which makes him to use the world as though he used it not a renewed old man is as a renewed Eagle inabled to mount up in duties with wings as Eagles to run in the ways of Gods Commandements and yet is not weary of well-doing to walk and yet is not faint