How operating differs from rousing grace: the Jesuit answer
Thesis LVII. Here the doctors of the Roman Church raise the question how operating grace differs from rousing grace, and cooperating grace from assisting grace. From what has been said it is easy to work out how each party must answer, according to its own positions.
Some, with Vasquez, Molina and most of the Jesuits, take rousing grace to mean only the grace that knocks and urges, and that indeed often in vain; assisting grace, the grace by which God concurs by special help with free choice while free choice consents to grace and obeys it; operating grace, the grace that produces in us devout thoughts and undeliberate movements, in which we take part physically but not freely; and cooperating grace, the grace that produces in us the free acts of the will by which we answer God when he calls and invites.
These people hold that operating grace is the same as rousing grace, and assisting grace the same as cooperating grace. For them one and the same grace is called rousing insofar as it urges and rouses us to good through the holy thoughts and devout desires it puts into us, and operating insofar as it works these in us without our freely concurring and consenting.
Likewise one and the same grace is called assisting insofar as it helps us while we consent to grace's invitation, and cooperating insofar as it does not work without us, as we freely give our consent.
Latin
LVII. Hic autem quaerunt Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, quomodo Gratia operans distinguatur ab excitante: & gratia cooperans a gratia adjuvante. Sed ex jam dictis facile colligi potest quid ad hanc quaestionem, juxta uniuscujusque placita, respondendum sit. Etenim illi qui, cum Vasquezio, Molina, & plerisque Jesuitis, per gratiam excitantem intelligunt tantum gratiam Pulsantem & Sollicitantem, & quidem saepe frustra: per gratiam vero Adjuvantem, illam qua Deus concurrit auxilio speciali cum libero arbitrio, dum gratiae consentit, & ei obsequitur: Ac rursus per gratiam operantem, illam quae in nobis efficit pias cogitationes, & motus indeliberatos, ad quos Physice quidem, sed non libere concurrimus; per cooperantem vero, illam quae in nobis producit liberos voluntatis actus, quibus Deo vocanti & invitanti respondemus; illi, inquam, existimant gratiam operantem eandem esse cum excitante, & gratiam adjuvantem eandem cum cooperante. Nempe juxta illos, eadem gratia, & dicitur excitans, quatenus per sanctas cogitationes, & desideria pia nobis immissa nos sollicitat & excitat ad bonum; Et operans, quatenus ista in nobis operatur, sine nobis libere concurrentibus, & consentientibus. Et similiter eadem gratia & adjuvans dicitur, quatenus nos adjuvat, dum invitanti gratiae consentimus; Et cooperans, quatenus non operatur sine nobis libere nostrum consensum praebentibus.