Thesis LXXXVII. They say, further, that God aids human efforts in two ways. One is outward and lies in threats or in promises, though promises have more power to fire people with devotion to God.
The other is an inward help that God gives us when, by divine power, he engraves more deeply on our minds the promises made to us and confirmed by outward proofs, or teaches us his will more fully.
Latin
LXXXVII. Caeterum duplici ratione Deum hominum conatibus opitulari dicunt; quarum altera externa est, & vel in minando, vel in promittendo consistit: quanquam in promissis major vis sit homines Dei studio inflammandi: altera vero internum auxilium est quod tunc nobis Deus affert, quum vel promissa nobis facta, ac externis documentis confirmata animis nostris divina virtute penitius insculpit, vel pleniori voluntatis suae notitia nos instruit.