Meanings of prevenient in English

Then by His prevenient working within us He moves us to return.

Therefore grace ought not to be divided into prevenient and subsequent.

Therefore grace is not fittingly divided into prevenient and subsequent.

Hence grace is not fittingly divided into prevenient and subsequent.

Objection 1: It would seem that grace is not fittingly divided into prevenient and subsequent.

As for Mark, nothing less than God's prevenient grace could explain his presence at Silchester.

She, of the time prevenient, on the spray

This belief is summed up in the Koranic saying, "Verily, the commandment of God is a prevenient decree."

But grace signifies a temporal effect, which can precede and follow another; and thus grace may be both prevenient and subsequent.

For subsequent grace, inasmuch as it pertains to glory, is not numerically distinct from prevenient grace whereby we are at present justified.

Hence if with regard to these, grace must be divided into prevenient and subsequent, it would seem that there are infinite species of grace.

What must his wrath be that the thirty thousand Needlewomen are still here, and the question of "prevenient grace" not yet settled!

M. Bayle acknowledges (farther on in chapter 168, p. 1111) that what is termed indifference does not exclude prevenient inclinations and pleasures.

(3) Of the division of it into prevenient and subsequent grace;

1: God's love signifies something eternal; and hence can never be called anything but prevenient.

Then by His prevenient working within us He moves us to return.