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

True to his Paphian mother, trace by trace, Slowly the Love-god with prevenient art, Begins the lost Sychæus to efface, And living passion to a breast impart Long dead to feeling, and a vacant heart.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Therefore grace is fittingly divided into prevenient and subsequent.

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

Thesis II: The sinner, even after he has received the faith, stands in absolute need of prevenient and co-operating grace for every single salutary act required in the process of justification.

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

A careful study of their writings, however, shows that these authors had in mind co-operating, not prevenient grace.

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