The second view: knocking is not yet rousing (Revelation 3:20)
Thesis XXXIX. Other theologians of the Roman school, however, explain and understand the division of grace into rousing and assisting in quite another way. From what has been said it is clear that for the first group rousing grace is the grace by which a person is roused and urged toward good even though he does not yet will it, and assisting grace is the grace by which he is helped to will it and then to do it.
To this they apply the text of Revelation: 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door to me, I will come in to him,' and so on.
The second group, whom we are now discussing, holds that this text should not be taken of rousing grace, because knocking and rousing are not the same thing. Many people are knocked at, both through the outward ministry of preaching, exhortation and rebuke and through inward enlightenments and inspirations, and yet are not roused from the sleep of sin or neglect. They do not wake up but stay sound asleep, and so they cannot yet be said to have rousing grace.
It is the same with people held by bodily sleep: someone knocks, yet they do not wake at once.
Latin
XXXIX. Verum alii Scholae Romanae Theologi distinctionem gratiae in excitantem atque adjuvantem diverso plane modo exponunt atque intelligunt. Patet enim ex dictis, juxta priores illos, gratiam excitantem esse, per quam homo excitatur & sollicitatur ad bonum, licet illud nondum velit: adjuvantem autem esse, per quam homo adjuvatur ut velit, ac deinde faciat. Quo referunt illud Apocalypseos, Ecce ego sto ad ostium & pulso, si quis audierit vocem meam, & aperuerit mihi januam, intrabo ad illum, &c. Sed posteriores isti de quibus jam agimus, locum illum de gratia excitante non exponendum esse censent. Dicunt enim non esse idem pulsare & excitare. Quoniam multis adhibetur pulsatio, tum per externum ministerium praedicationis, exhortationis & increpationis, tum per internas illustrationes & inspirationes, qui tamen a somno peccati, vel negligentiae non excitantur, neque evigilant, sed consopiti manent, qui proinde nondum dici possunt excitantem gratiam habere. Quemadmodum & iis accidit, qui corporis somno detinentur, ut pulsatione adhibita, non tamen statim expergiscantur.