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.

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And as one effect is posterior to this effect, and prior to that, so may grace be called prevenient and subsequent on account of the same effect viewed relatively to divers others.

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

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

If the necessity of prevenient grace was not sufficiently emphasized, the circumstances of the time explain, and to some extent excuse, the mistake.

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

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

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