Peter of Saint Joseph: aid as being and as benefit
Thesis CXXXIII. Peter of Saint Joseph teaches much the same at the end of the seventh disputation of his treatise on divine grace. 'Divine aid,' he says, 'can be viewed in two ways: as a being or as a benefit. Viewed the first way, it can happen that one person is not converted with equal or even greater aid while another is converted with less. The reason is that grace does not determine the will; when equal aid, considered as a being, is offered to two people, each stays undetermined between consenting and not consenting, so one of them may freely consent though the other does not consent at all.
But if the aid is viewed as a gift and benefit, it cannot happen that, given equal aid, one is converted and the other not. For aids are called equal in the order of benefit when they benefit equally; so if one aid benefits to the point of actually taking effect and the other not at all, they are already unequal in the order of benefit.'
Latin
CXXXIII. Quibus similia tradit Petrus a Sancto Joseph in fine disputationis septimae tractatus de gratia divina. Auxilium divinum, inquit, duobus modis spectari potest, vel in genere entis, vel in genere beneficii. Si priori modo spectetur, fieri potest ut unus cum aequali, aut etiam cum majori auxilio non convertatur, & alter convertatur cum minori. Ratio est, quia cum gratia non determinet voluntatem, oblato duobus hominibus aequali auxilio in ratione entis, uterque manet indifferens ad consentiendum, aut non consentiendum. Quare unus illorum libere poterit consentire, etsi alter minime consentiat. Si vero auxilium spectetur sub ratione doni, & beneficii, tunc fieri non potest ut posito aequali auxilio, unus convertatur, non alter; quia auxilia tunc dicuntur aequalia in ratione beneficii, quando aeque prosunt: quare si unum ita prosit, ut reipsa effectum habeat, aliud minime, jam in genere beneficii aequalia non sunt.