Polanus: saving grace is not anything created in us
Thesis IV. The Reformed theologians do grant that in holy scripture the grace of God sometimes means the gifts and effects of God's favour and love toward us. Still, they think grace is to be taken that way in only a few places.
For they hold that every passage saying we are chosen, called, justified or saved by God's grace must not be explained of some gift that inheres in us. These passages refer only to God's free love and goodwill. This can be seen especially in Polanus.
Grace that makes us pleasing and acceptable to God, he writes, and so saving grace as well, by which we are chosen in Christ for eternal salvation, effectually called, justified and regenerated, and by which in the end we are saved forever, is not a quality infused into us. It is not something created and inhering in us, not the love with which we love God, nor any other virtue in us (Syntagma, book 2, chapter 21, cited just above).
Latin
IV. Quamvis autem Theologi Reformati agnoscant per Dei gratiam in scriptura sacra quandoque designari divini favoris & amoris erga nos munera & effecta, paucis tamen in locis gratiam eo sensu sumendam esse putant. Siquidem omnia illa loca ubi dicimur per Dei gratiam electi, vocati, justificati, servati, contendunt minime exponenda esse de dono aliquo nobis inhaerente, sed tantum de gratuito Dei amore & benevolentia. Uti praesertim apud Polanum videre est. Gratia, inquit, Deo gratum atque acceptum faciens, atque ita & gratia salvans, qua sumus electi in Christo ad salutem aeternam, efficaciter vocati, justificati, regenerati, qua denique aeternum servamur, non est qualitas nobis infusa, non aliquid in nobis creatum & inhaerens, non charitas qua nos Deum diligimus, aut ulla alia virtus in nobis. Syntagmatis Theologici lib. 2. cap. 21. modo citato.