The Godly Man's Picture

Four Sacrifices God is much pleased with, the sacrifice of Christs blood, the sacrifice of a broken heart, the sacrifice of Alms, and the sacrifice of thanksgiving: Praise and Thanksgiving (saith Mr. Greenham) is the most excellent part of Gods worship, for this shall continue in the heavenly quire, ⟨p. 193⟩when all other exercises of Religion shall cease.

6 What an horrid thing ingratitude is, it gives a dye and tincture to every other sin, and makes it Crimson; ingratitude is the spirits of baseness, Obad. v. 7. They that eat thy bread, have laid a Wound under thee: Ingratitude is worse than brutish, Isa. 1. 3. 'Tis reported of Julius Caesar, that he would never forgive an ungrateful person; though God be a sin-pardoning God, he scarce knows not how to pardon for this, Jer. 5. 7. How shall I pardon thee for this, thy children have forsaken me, when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery. Draco (whose Laws were written in blood) published and edict, that if any man had received a benefit from another, and it could be proved against him, that he had not been grateful for it, he should be put to death; an unthankful person is a monster in nature, a Paradox in Christianity; he is the scorn of heaven, and the plague of earth; an ungrateful man, never doth well but in one thing, that is when he dies.

6 What an horrid thing ingratitude is, it gives a dye and tincture to every other sin, and makes it Crimson; ingratitude is the spirits of baseness, Obad. v. 7. They that eat thy bread, have laid a Wound under thee: Ingratitude is worse than bruitish,