Rome too confesses free choice before grace a slave of sin, and the beginning of justification from God alone
Conversely, we have shown that the theologians of the Roman School admit with the Protestants that man's free choice before grace is so enslaved to sin that it can do nothing in the things that make up true and saving piety toward God.
They even admit that the very beginning of our justification and conversion comes from God alone and not from our free choice, and that in this respect man is merely passive.
Latin
LIII. Vicissim vero manifestum fecimus Scholae Romanae Theologos cum Protestantibus fateri liberum hominis arbitrium, ante gratiam, sic esse peccati servum, ut nihil possit in iis in quibus vera & salutifera pietas in Deum consistit. Imo primum initium justificationis & conversionis nostrae a solo Deo esse, non vero a nostro libero arbitrio, & eo respectu hominem mere passive se habere.