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
Pfeffinger goes beyond Melanchthon and Strigel; for the action here demanded of, and ascribed to, the natural will is, according to him, not even in need of liberation by prevenient grace….
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
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
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 Evelyn Underhill
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 Arthur Preuss
