[b]First place in your thoughts
(Brooks, "The Golden Key to Open Hidden Treasures")
Friends, these things must have first place in your thoughts:
1. Your sins--to humble you and abase you before God.
2. God's free and rich and sovereign grace--to soften and
melt you down into submission to His holy will.
3. The Lord Jesus Christ--to assist, help, strengthen, and
influence you in all your duties and services.
4. The blessed Scriptures--to guide you and lead you, "and
to be a lamp unto your feet, and a light unto your paths."
5. The afflictions of the godly--to draw out your charity,
mercy, pity, sympathy and compassion to men in misery.
6. The glory and happiness of the eternal world--to arm you
and steel you against all your sins, snares and temptations.