Yet the first act of conversion is vital and free
Thesis XXII. Still, neither he nor the other Reformed deny on this account that the first act of conversion is a vital act, an action produced by the faculty in us called the will. Indeed they do not deny that it is a free action and one of those the schools call human acts.
Their only point is this: when God converts a person, the first thing grace works in us is something that goes entirely before the person's free movement toward good. On this point, then, the Reformed seem not to differ from the sounder scholastics, though they put their meaning in other words.
Latin
XXII. Neque tamen vel ille vel alii Reformati negant propterea primum conversionis actum esse actum vitalem, & actionem a facultate illa, quae voluntas in nobis dicitur, elicitam: imo non inficiantur esse actionem liberam, & ex earum numero quae in Scholis humanae vocantur. Hoc solum sibi volunt; quum Deus hominem convertit, primum illud quod gratia in nobis operatur quiddam esse quod liberam hominis motionem ad bonum omnino praevenit. Adeoque non videntur hac in parte Reformati a sanioribus inter Scholasticos dissentire, licet aliis verbis mentem suam exprimant.