What rousing grace includes: inner hearing and sudden divine flashes
Thesis XXXVI. Those who list more precisely what this rousing grace consists of include in it, first, an inner hearing and preliminary grasp of the truths of faith, which comes before assent.
Next they include certain divine flashes that strike our mind so suddenly that, in a new and unfamiliar light, we find ourselves knowing and seeing the greatness and worth of divine things, or else the foulness of sin, the smallness of human affairs and the like. When these are noticed and weighed with more attention, they move a person powerfully to turn wholly to God.
Latin
XXXVI. Qui autem distinctius enumerant ea in quibus gratia illa excitans consistit, ad eam referunt, primo internam quandam auditionem, & praeconceptionem veritatum fidei, quae assensum antecedit. Deinde coruscationes quasdam divinas, quibus ita derepente percellitur mens nostra, ut nova quadam & inusitata luce experiamur nos cognoscere & intueri magnitudinem & dignitatem rerum divinarum; aut etiam foeditatem peccatorum, & exiguitatem rerum humanarum, & alia ejusmodi, quae attentius animadversa, atque considerata, vehementer hominem movent, ut ad Deum se totum convertat.