It is generally expected that this atrocious murderer will be guillotined, notwithstanding the averseness of the government to capital punishment.
Such as only lose their affections to good; their complacency and desire; and lose their averseness and zeal against sin.
Dissension tends to cool your love; oft falling out doth tend to leave a habit of distaste and averseness on the mind.
Love will suppress wrath; you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love; much less can you proceed to reviling words, or to averseness and estrangedness, or any abuse of one another.
Your own averseness to God, and your dislike of the holiness of his laws and servants, might tell you what thoughts he hath of you.
This averseness to labour is sinful, when it is a voluntary backwardness to that labour which is our duty.
Sloth is an averseness to labour, through a carnal love of ease, or indulgence to the flesh.
But involuntary averseness to the labour of our duty through indulgence of fleshly ease, is the sinful sloth or laziness which we speak of.
The degree of sinfulness in the will lieth in a stiffness and obstinacy, a tenaciousness of deceitful temporal good, and an eagerness after it; and stubborn aversenessto spiritual good, as it is against that temporal fleshly good.
This would account for an averseness to all overtures for peace, as decided, at this period, among a great body of the cavaliers as it was with the factions of Pym or Vane.
Elizabeth in her systematic parsimony, James in his averseness to war, had been alike influenced by a consciousness that want of money alone could render a parliament formidable to their power.
These tiring and perplexing thoughts begot in him an averseness to enter into the toil of considering and determining all casuistical points; because during that time, they neither gave rest to his body or mind.
But though he had an averseness to appear publicly in print; yet after many serious solicitations, and some second thoughts of his own, he laid aside his modesty, and promised he would; and he did so in that year of 1615.
She was pretty certain that lady would be glad to settle her in another county; and that her averseness to so ill-suited a marriage would only serve as an additional recommendation to her mother.
Your averseness to her plan gives me pleasure, for it exactly corresponds with my own.
I thought it became my averseness to this meeting, to name a distant day: but I did not expect they would have complied with it.
There are that find in their Natures an averseness to some Persons whom they never saw before, of which they can give no better an account than he in Martial, concerning Sabidius.
Yea, with a nature that hath the innate dispositions to sloth, and to diverting pleasures and business; and more than so, to an averseness from those principles which are needful to sanctification and heavenly wisdom.
There is in every man a natural and sensitive love of himself and his own pleasure and felicity, and an averseness to death and pain and sorrow, as there is in every brute: and this God hath planted there for the preservation of the creature.
