Davenant: good works as concurrent or preparatory conditions
Thesis XXIX. Hence Davenant does not hesitate to assert that certain good works are necessary for justification as concurrent or preparatory conditions, though not as efficient or meritorious causes. Among these good works he counts inward ones that weigh much with God though men do not see them: grieving for sin, hating sin, humbly submitting to God, fleeing to God's mercy, setting one's hope on Christ the Mediator, resolving on a new life, and the like.
'For God's mercy,' he says, 'does not justify blocks of wood, that is, people who do nothing, nor horses and mules, that is, people who kick back and cling stubbornly to their lusts. It justifies men, and men who are pierced and contrite and follow the guidance of God's word and Spirit' (On actual righteousness, chapter 31).
Latin
XXIX. Unde est quod Davenantius asserere non formidat, Bona quaedam opera necessaria esse ad justificationem, ut conditiones concurrentes, vel praecursorias, licet non sint necessaria ut causae efficientes, aut meritoriae: in hisce vero bonis operibus numerat interna illa quae apud Deum magni momenti sunt, quamvis in oculos hominum non incurrant; ut dolere de peccato, detestari peccatum, humiliter se Deo subjicere, ad Dei misericordiam confugere, in Christo Mediatore spem figere, novae vitae propositum inire, aliaque consimilia. Divina enim misericordia non justificat, inquit, stipites, hoc est nihil agentes: neque equos & mulos, hoc est, recalcitrantes & libidinibus suis obstinate adhaerescentes: sed homines eosdemque compunctos & contritos, ac verbi spiritusque divini ductum sequentes. De justitia actuali cap. 31.