prevenient
Example Sentences
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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 Arthur Preuss
“Now, I find thy prevenient grace helping my infirmities, and assisting me to pray as I ought.”
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
After prevenient grace, however, begins to make itself felt, then the will begins to take part.
From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente
It follows that to be efficacious, prayer must be an effect of prevenient grace.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
