Bellarmine's state of the controversy is falsely laid down
All this plainly shows that Bellarmine and other doctors of the Roman School argue against the Protestants to no purpose, as though the Protestants flatly denied that man cooperates with divine grace in his conversion, and that conversion itself is a free work that man performs freely as divine grace moves and rouses him.
It also shows that the state of the question Bellarmine sets up between all Protestants and the Roman Church is empty and falsely stated. His question is: 'After sin, does man have free choice in matters of salvation in such a way that, though he can do nothing without the help of grace, yet when roused by prevenient grace and helped by God he can act in such a way that he can also not act?'
Latin
LI. Ex quibus omnibus evidenter sequitur, Bellarminum & alios Scholae Romanae Doctores frustra disputare contra Protestantes, quasi negarent simpliciter hominem in sua conversione cooperari divinae gratiae, & conversionem ipsam esse opus liberum, & quod homo, divina gratia movente & excitante, libere eliciat. Ac plane nullum & falso positum esse statum controversiae, quem constituit Bellarminus inter Protestantes omnes & Ecclesiam Romanam. An scilicet, homo post peccatum, ita sit liberi arbitrii in iis rebus quae pertinent ad salutem, ut quamvis nihil possit sine auxilio gratiae, tamen per gratiam praevenientem excitatus & a Deo adjutus, ita valeat operari, ut possit etiam non operari?