Get sound knowledge of God, and of his infinite excellencies, and absoluteness every way, and of his independency on man or any other creature; whence it is, that he needeth not any thing that man hath, or can do; neither can he be beholden to man: but know, that you stand in need of God, and must be beholden to him for all things. Know, also, that whatsoever God doth, by whatever means it be, he doth it from himself, induced by nothing out of himself, being free in all that he doth. Know likewise, that whatsoever was the instrument of your good, God was the author of both the good and the instrument.
Next, get a clear understanding of the full worth and excellent use of God’s gifts, both common and special. Wealth, honour, liberty, health, life, senses, reason, &c. considered in themselves, and in their use, will be esteemed to be great benefits; but if you consider them in their absence, when you are sensible of poverty, sickness and the rest, or if you be so blessed that you know not the want of them, then if you considerately and humbly look upon the poor, base, imprisoned, captive, sick, deaf, blind, dumb, distracted, &c. putting yourself in their case, you will say, that you are unspeakably beholden to God for these corporal and temporal blessings.
But chiefly learn to know, and consider well, the worth of spiritual blessings: one of them, the peace of God, passeth all understanding. To enjoy the gospel upon any terms, to have salvation, such a salvation as is offered by Christ, to have faith, hope, love, and the other manifold saving graces of the Spirit, though but in the least measure, in the very first seed of the Spirit, though no bigger than a grain of mustard seed, with never so much outward affliction, is of such inestimable value and consequence, that it is more than eye hath seen, or ear hath heard, or ever entered into the heart of man. For besides that the least grace is invaluable in itself, it is also the evidence of better gifts, namely, that God hath given you his Spirit, hath given you Christ, and in him hath given himself, a propitious and gracious God, and with himself hath given you all things. When you know God aright, and his gifts aright, knowing all things in God, and God in all things, then you will be full of praises and thanks.

Scudder, H. (1826). The Christian’s Daily Walk (pp. 179–181). William Whyte & Co.