Thesis XXIII. The doctors of the Reformed school also accept the distinction of grace into prevenient and subsequent, though not all in the same sense. Aretius holds that prevenient grace is the same as operating grace, and subsequent grace the same as cooperating grace, as a great many scholastics also hold.
Grace is called prevenient, he says, because it goes before the will, so that the beginning of conversion is not from us but from God in his mercy. It is called subsequent because new impulses and good works follow conversion, and we cannot do any of these without grace.
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XXIII. Admittunt quoque Scholae Reformatae Doctores distinctionem gratiae in praevenientem atque subsequentem, sed non omnes eodem sensu. Aretius vult gratiam praevenientem eandem esse cum gratia operante; & gratiam subsequentem eandem cum cooperante, quod etiam plurimi Scholastici sentiunt. Nam, inquit, gratia praeveniens dicitur, quod voluntatem praeveniat, ut initium conversionis non sit a nobis, sed a Deo miserante: subsequens, quod conversionem consequantur novi motus, & bona opera, quae omnia sine gratia efficere non possumus.