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

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

There is an infusion from God's will into his will, and now prevenient Grace is changed into operating Grace.

From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by Rhodes, M. (Mosheim)

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

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