is man himself utterly passive while receiving that stirred up and assisted by divine grace, conceiving grace, to convert themselves to their own justification, faith by hearing, they are freely moved towards God, Whence, when it is said in the sacred writings, Turn standing themselves to be sinners, they, by turning demption that is in Christ Jesus; and when, under- to thee, and we shall be converted, we confess that grace : in such sort that, while God touches the heart inspiration, forasmuch as he is also able to reject it ; any merits existing on their parts, they are called; yet is he not able, by his own free will, without the of our liberty ; and \vhen we answer, Convert us, Lord, themselves from the fear of divine justice, whereby 86 ROMAN CATHOLICISM by freely assenting to and co-operating with the said grace of God, to move himself unto justice in his sight. they are profitably agitated, to consider the mercy of ye to me, and I will turn to you, we are admonished believing those things to be true which God has re- may be disposed, through His quickening and assisting Now adults are disposed unto the said justice when of man by the illumination of the Holy Ghost, neither that so they, who by sins were alienated from God, the grace of God comes before to help us. [Chap. 5.] vealed and promised and this especially, that God justifies the impious by his grace, through the re-