Bellarmine: cooperating grace for the later acts
Thesis LII. In his view the grace needed for the will's later acts, after the first, is called cooperating, because once we have begun to turn to God we not only produce the later acts through free choice with God's help, but also spur and drive ourselves to them, with God cooperating.
'So operating grace,' he says, 'is the grace that makes us will to believe, since this happens in us without our asking for it, much less toiling and striving for it; and cooperating grace is the grace that makes us will to pray, fast and give alms, since this does not happen except with our effort and diligence cooperating.'
From this he concludes that God does not work our willing without us, but only works without us the fact that we will. For we cooperate with God in willing, that is, in freely producing the act of willing, but we do not cooperate in bringing it about that we will, because we do not ourselves move and spur ourselves to will; he alone moves and drives us by an inward inspiration.
Latin
LII. Gratia autem illa quae requiritur ad reliquos actus voluntatis, post primum, ex ejus sententia, dicitur cooperans, quoniam postea quam coepimus converti ad Deum, jam nos ipsi non tantum per liberum arbitrium producimus, Deo juvante, reliquos actus; sed etiam nos incitamus & impellimus, Deo cooperante, ad eos. Itaque, inquit, gratia operans est quae facit nos velle credere; quia id in nobis fit, sine nobis petentibus, ac multo minus laborantibus & conantibus: Et gratia cooperans, quae facit nos velle orare, jejunare, & eleemosynas dare: quia id non fit nisi conatu, & industria nostra cooperante. Unde colligit Deum non operari velle nostrum sine nobis; sed tantum operari ut velimus sine nobis: quoniam scilicet, Deo cooperamur volendo, id est, libere producendo actum volendi; sed non cooperamur faciendo ut velimus. Quia non ipsi nos movemus & incitamus ad volendum: sed ipse solus interna inspiratione nos movet atque impellit.