The British theologians: God's special mercy toward the elect
Thesis XLIX. They add that even the elect never behave in these acts that go before regeneration so well that God could not justly abandon and forsake them for their negligence and resistance.
But God's special mercy toward them is such that, though they push away or smother this stirring and enlightening grace for a time, he presses them again and again and does not stop leading them forward until he has brought them wholly under his grace and set them in the state of regenerate children.
Latin
XLIX. Addunt ne electos quidem ipsos in hisce praecedaneis ad regenerationem actibus ita se gerere unquam, quin propter negligentiam & resistentiam suam possint juste a Deo deseri & derelinqui: sed eam esse erga illos specialem Dei misericordiam, ut quamvis hanc gratiam excitantem & illuminantem repellant aliquamdiu, aut suffocent, eos tamen iterum, iterumque urgeat Deus, nec desistat promovere, donec eosdem gratiae suae prorsus subjugaverit, ac in statu filiorum regeneratorum collocaverit.