This we know is the passion of defiance, and there is a kind of aversation and hostility included in its very essence and being. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)
This, we know, is the passion of defiance, and there is a kind of aversation and hostility included in its very essence and being. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
His preference of his country and condition was genuine, and his aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Our ignorance is great enough, and yet the fact most surprising is not our ignorance, but the aversation of men from knowledge. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The substantive, therefore, that should answer to the adjective, I would not seek any otherwhere than as it is included in the word make excuse; so that the sense of it may be they began all for one cause to make excuse, i.e. for one and the same aversation they had to it. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
The soul's natural aversation to let go this body, is that which we call an unwillingness to die; that hath made some say, like him of old, "Mori nolo," etc., ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
This, then, is the foundation of the unalterable aversation in the mind and soul to part with the body, -- this strange constitution of our nature, which has nothing like it in the whole work of God, nothing to give us any representation of it, but it is peculiar unto us. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
I told you the soul hath an aversation to this dissolution; and yet the apostle saith, "I have a continual, strong inclination to it." ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
So are all men towards what they do not like, but have an aversation from. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
By the depravation of our natures we are "alienated from this life of God," this divine, spiritual life, Eph.iv. 18; we like it not, but we have an aversation unto it. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
It hath no liking of it, no inclination to it, but carrieth away the whole soul with an aversation from it. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
And this alienation or aversation appears in two things: -- (1.) ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
I say, the spiritual irregularity of our affections, and their aversation from spiritual things, is discernible in no light but that of supernatural illumination; for if without that spiritual things themselves cannot be discerned, as the apostle assures us they cannot, 1 Cor.ii. 14, it is impossible that the disorder of our affections with respect unto them should be so. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
But such a disposition and inclination, or a principle so inclining and disposing us unto duties of holiness, we have not in or of ourselves by nature, nor is it to be raised out of its ruins; for the "carnal mind" (which is in us all) "is enmity against God," which carrieth in it an aversation unto everything that is required of us in a way of obedience, as hath been proved at large. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
What difficulties lie in the way of its due performance, what discouragements rise up against it, how unable we are of ourselves in a due manner to discharge it, what aversation there is in corrupted nature unto it, what distractions and weariness are apt to befall us under it, are generally known also unto them who are any way exercised in these things. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
So far natural light will go; and thereby, in the working of their consciences, as far as I know, men may be put to pray about them: but the chief depravation of the affections lies in their aversation unto things spiritual and heavenly. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
Rome: but take heavenly and spiritual things in themselves, with respect unto their proper ends, and there is in all our affections, as corrupted, a dislike of them and aversation unto them, which variously act themselves, and influence our souls unto vanities and disorders in all holy duties. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
So long as the Father is looked on under any other apprehension, but only as acting love upon the soul, it breeds in the soul a dread and aversation. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
