Testard: grace freely given invites; grace that makes pleasing transforms
Thesis XIV. Some doctors of the Reformed school do accept the distinction of grace into grace freely given and grace that makes pleasing, but in a different sense from the one the scholastic doctors accepted. Testard, in his Irenicum, takes grace freely given to be the grace by which God invites a person to salvation, and grace that makes pleasing to be the grace by which God effectually changes, converts and sanctifies a person.
Alternatively, for him grace freely given is a genus, and grace that makes pleasing is the species of that genus through which faith is produced in a person, sins are forgiven and holiness is infused. This can be seen in thesis 300.
The distinction of grace into grace freely given and grace that makes pleasing, he writes, can be accepted in this way. Grace freely given is the grace that only goes before by inviting on God's side, like general grace. Grace that makes pleasing, which is also freely given, effectually changes a person and turns someone abhorrent into someone pleasing and acceptable to God. Or else grace freely given is the most general genus of grace and covers every grace, while grace that makes pleasing is the species of it that produces faith, forgives sins and sanctifies; in a word, it prepares the subject.
Latin
XIV. Nonnulli quoque ex Scholae Reformatae Doctoribus distinctionem gratiae in gratis datam & gratum facientem admittunt quidem, sed alio sensu, quam qui apud Scholasticos Doctores receptus est. Nam Testardus in Irenico per gratiam gratis datam intelligit eam per quam Deus hominem ad salutem invitat: per gratiam vero gratum facientem, illam per quam Deus hominem efficaciter immutat, convertit atque sanctificat. Vel gratia gratis data ipsi genus quoddam est; gratia vero gratum faciens ea generis illius species per quam homini fides ingeneratur, peccata remittuntur, sanctitas infunditur. Ut videre est thesi trecentesima. Distinctio, inquit, gratiae in gratis datam, & gratum facientem sic potest admitti, ut gratis data dicatur ea quae tantum praevenit invitando a parte Dei, qualis est generalis: gratum faciens, quae etiam gratis data est, sed hominem efficaciter immutando, de abominando facit Deo gratum & acceptum. Vel ut gratia gratis data sit genus gratiae generalissimum & omnem gratiam significet; gratia vero gratum faciens sit gratiae gratis datae species ea, qua fidem ingenerat, peccata remittit, sanctificat, subjectum uno verbo praeparat.