prevenient

We hear great men discussing the question of "prevenient grace," as they would discuss the composition of milk punch, and we hear them mutually anathematize each other on this plain and demonstrable proposition.

There is none of that prevenient idealism which in the north draws a veil over the crudities of sense, and helps to illuminate the half-truths they reveal.

He shows us the way by his prevenient grace, which is bestowed on all men without exception.

The division of grace into efficacious and merely sufficient is not identical with that into prevenient and coöperating.

An aggressive woman with opinions about prevenient grace, or the advantages of female emigration, or the functions of the deaconess, would be far preferable to this.