The Godly Man's Picture

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, Isa. 1. 3. 'Tis reported of Iulius 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, Ier. 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 bee proved against him, that hee had not been grateful for it, hee should be put to death; an unthankful person is a monster in nature, a Pardox 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 hee dies.