Vasquez assigns the same to Catharinus, Cordoba, Sirenus, Osorio: free choice the first root; three instants in works of grace
In the same place Vasquez attributes the same view to Ambrose Catharinus, Antonio de Cordoba, Julius Sirenus, Osorio and some others. They teach, he says, that God did not foreordain our acts, good or evil, as to their substance, before he foresaw how our choice would determine itself. The determination to one side rather than the other, in good or evil acts as to their substance, comes indeed both from us and from God, but its first root and cause is free choice.
From this, Vasquez says, they infer that our determination is understood to come before God's predestination and foreordination. They assign the same order, he says, in the works of grace as regards consent and cooperation, though they grant that operating and arousing grace, that is, the call, comes before both our cooperation and God's.
As Vasquez reports, they distinguish three instants. In the first our will is anticipated by grace. In the second it determines itself to consent to the call or to resist it. In the third God concurs with it. So on their view God foreknows what the will is going to determine itself to, in works of grace as in works of nature, before he decrees to concur with it in this or that act, and so before he foreordains any of our acts.
Latin
XXII. Et eandem quoque sententiam tribuit Gabriel Vasquez, loco modo citato, Ambrosio Catharino, Antonio de Corduba, Julio Sireno, Osorio, & aliis nonnullis quos docere affirmat, Deum non praefiniisse actus nostros, sive bonos, sive malos secundum substantiam ipsorum, ante praevisam determinationem arbitrii nostri: deinde determinationem ad unam partem potius quam ad aliam, sive in bonis, sive in malis actibus quoad substantiam ipsorum, esse quidem a nobis, & a Deo: sed primam radicem, & causam illius esse liberum arbitrium. Ex quo illos inferre ait, prius intelligi determinationem nostram, quam Dei praedestinationem, & praefinitionem. Et eundem etiam ordinem illos assignare dicit in operibus gratiae, quod attinet ad consensum, & cooperationem: quanquam concedant ante nostram, & Dei cooperationem praecedere gratiam operantem & excitantem, nempe vocationem. Nam, ut refert idem Vasquez, tria instantia distinguunt, Primum in quo voluntas nostra gratia praevenitur; Secundum in quo ipsa se determinet ad consentiendum, vel repugnandum vocationi: Tertium in quo Deus cum illa concurrat. Adeoque ex eorum mente, Deus praescit ad quid voluntas se determinatura sit, tam in operibus gratiae, quam in operibus naturae, antequam cum illa ad hunc, aut illum actum concurrere decernat, & sic antequam ullos actus nostros praefiniat.