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
Then by His prevenient working within us He moves us to return.
From The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer
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 Arthur Preuss
In the former alternative we have a prevenient necessity which determines the will ad unum and consequently destroys its freedom.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
No doom retributive attends the deed That wreaks prevenient wrong.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
