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June 20 Mortification“The choicest believers [i.e. even the most godly ones] who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin”
John Owen, The Mortification of Sin June 19 Personal Challenge from Faithful MenRecreation to a minister must be as whetting is with the mower—that is, to be used only so far as is necessary for his work. May a physician in plague–time take any more relaxation or recreation than is necessary for his life, when so many are expecting his help in a case of life and death? Will you stand by and see sinners gasping under the pangs of death, and say: “God doth not require me to make myself a drudge to save them”? Is this the voice of ministerial or Christian compassion or rather of sensual laziness and diabolical cruelty?—Richard Baxter
Misemployment of time is injurious to the mind. In illness I have looked back with self–reproach on days spent in my study; I was wading through history and poetry and monthly journals, but I was in my study! Another man’s trifling is notorious to all observers, but what am I doing? Nothing, perhaps, that has reference to the spiritual good of my congregation. Be much in retirement and prayer. Study the honor and glory of your Master.—Richard Cecil
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