Yet they confess the beginning of justification is from God alone, man merely passive (Angles)
The doctors of the Roman School, with the Council of Trent, hold that man's free choice cooperates with God as he calls and rouses it, and that the human will acts not only actively but freely in the first acts by which we turn to God, so that it can not only consent to grace that attracts and draws it but also dissent from it.
All the same, they concede that our justification and conversion start from God alone and not from our free choice, and that in this respect man is merely passive. This can be seen in Joseph Angles, Bishop of Bosa, whose conclusion reads: 'The beginning of our justification lies not in our free choice. It lies solely in God himself, while we are merely passive.'
He goes on to support it with a number of scriptural texts: 'You did not choose me'; 'Apart from me you can do nothing'; 'No one can come to me unless my Father draws him.' (Flores theologicarum quaestionum, on free choice, the single question, article 3, difficulty 7, conclusion 1.)
Latin
XIV. Quanquam vero Scholae Romanae Doctores cum Concilio Tridentino statuant liberum hominis arbitrium cooperari Deo vocanti atque excitanti, & humanam voluntatem non solum active, sed libere se habere, respectu primorum actuum quibus ad Deum convertimur; ita ut allicienti & trahenti gratiae non solum consentire, sed & ab ea dissentire possit: fatentur tamen initium justificationis & conversionis nostrae a solo Deo esse, non a libero nostro arbitrio, & eo respectu hominem mere passive se habere. Id videre est apud Josephum Angles Episcopum Bosanensem, cujus haec est Conclusio, Initium nostrae justificationis non est a libero arbitrio nostro; sed est solum ab ipso Deo, nobis mere passive nos habentibus. Quod postea multis scripturae locis probat. Ut illo, Non vos me elegistis. Item, Sine me nihil potestis facere. Et, Nemo potest venire ad me, nisi Pater meus traxerit eum. In floribus quaestionum Theologicarum, Tractatu de Libero Arbitrio, quaestione unica. Articulo 3. Difficultate 7. Conclusione 1.