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 Semipelagians ascribed the dispositions necessary for justification to the natural efforts of the will, thereby denying the necessity of prevenient grace.

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

Hence if with regard to these, grace must be divided into prevenient and subsequent, it would seem that there are infinite species of grace.

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

There is none of that prevenient idealism which in the north draws a veil over the crudities of sense, and helps to illuminate the half-truths they reveal.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

“Now, I find thy prevenient grace helping my infirmities, and assisting me to pray as I ought.”

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann