The chief dispute: is assisting grace prior in nature? (Jesuits)
Thesis LXI. Among the theologians of the Roman school, however, the main dispute here concerns the way in which God's grace cooperates with our will.
The Jesuits and many other doctors of the Roman school deny that assisting or cooperating grace concurs in the supernatural work before free choice in the order of nature. They do so in order not to admit that grace predetermines free choice, since in their judgment the freedom of the will would then perish: on that supposition divine grace would lay on the will some necessity of acting that could not stand with freedom.
Peter of Saint Joseph, among others, thinks and argues this way in his Idea theologiae speculativae, book 4, chapter 6, where his third resolution begins: 'Assisting grace does not concur in the supernatural work before free choice in the order of nature.'
Latin
LXI. Sed inter Scholae Romanae Theologos praecipua hic controversia est de modo quo Der gratia cum voluntate nostra cooperatur. Etenim Jesuitae, & alii complures Scholae Romanae Doctores, negant gratiam adjuvantem, sive cooperantem prius natura concurrere ad opus supernaturale, quam liberum arbitrium; Et hoc ne admittant, gratiam praedeterminare liberum arbitrium. Unde, ipsorum judicio, periret libertas voluntatis; cui, ex ista hypothesi, gratia divina imponeret aliquam agendi necessitatem, quae cum libertate consistere non posset. Sic inter alios sentit & ratiocinatur Petrus a sancto Joseph, in idea Theologiae speculativae, libro quarto, capite sexto, ubi sic incipit ejus tertia Resolutio, Gratia adjuvans uon concurrit prius natura ad opus supernaturale, quam liberum arbitrium.