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

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

If we conceive a continuous series of supernatural graces, each may be called either prevenient or subsequent, according as it is regarded either as a cause or as an effect.

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

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

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