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

Grace does no more than give impressions which are conducive to making will operate through fitting motives, such as would be an attention, a dic cur hic, a prevenient pleasure.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.

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

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

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)