Second objection: no created gift first wins God's favour
Thesis IX. Second, they do not accept that anything created and inhering in us should be called grace that makes us pleasing and acceptable to God, as can be seen in Polanus, Aretius and Peter Martyr at the places cited above.
They do not deny that the gifts which the doctors of the Roman school mean by grace that makes pleasing are something that pleases God, something he delights in and finds acceptable. Their point is that these gifts are not what first wins God's favour for people. The gifts are themselves effects of God's favour and love, and they come from God already favouring and loving us even before we received them. As John says: not that we loved God, but because he first loved us.
Latin
IX. Deinde iis non probatur quod quidquam in nobis creatum & inhaerens dicatur gratia Deo gratum atque acceptum faciens, ut videre est apud Polanum Aretium & Petrum Martyrem locis supra citatis. Non quod negent Dei dona, quae Scholae Rom. Doctores per gratiam gratum facientem designant, esse aliquid Deo placens, quo Deus delectetur, & quod ipsi gratum sit: Sed quod istis donis non primum Dei favor hominibus conciliatur; cum ipsa sint effecta favoris & amoris divini, & procedant a Deo nobis favente, nosque diligente, etiam antequam illa acceperimus: juxta illud Joannis, Non quod dilexerimus Deum, sed quia prior ipse dilexit nos.