prevenient

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He is almost entirely dependent upon God's "prevenient grace," which gives him the desire to do God's will, and "subsequent grace," which enables him to do it.

From Time Magazine Archive

It follows that to be efficacious, prayer must be an effect of prevenient grace.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

Yet these very minds have always in the end discovered the necessity of finding place for the overwhelming certitude of a personal contact, a prevenient and an answering love.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn

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.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

Hence grace is not fittingly divided into prevenient and subsequent.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint