The British theologians: regeneration first, then our act of faith
Thesis LXV. Conversion in the sense of God's direct work, they say, is the work by which God, through an innermost and wonderful working, regenerates the souls of his elect, which various acts of his grace have already stirred and prepared, and as it were creates them anew, pouring in the life-giving Spirit and filling every faculty of the soul with new qualities.
In their view this conversion is followed, not in time but in order of nature, by our actual conversion: God draws the act of believing and turning out of the changed will, and the will, moved by God, then acts too, turning itself to God and believing, that is, producing its own living act.
They add that this divine action does not damage the will's freedom but strengthens it. It does not tear out by the roots the corrupt possibility of resisting, but effectively and gently gives the person a firm will to obey.
Latin
LXV. Caeterum conversionem prout immediatum opus Dei designat, dicunt esse qua Deus animos electorum suorum prius variis actibus gratiae suae excitatos & praeparatos, intima quadam, & mirabili operatione regenerat, & quasi de novo creat; infundendo spiritum vivificantem & omnes animae facultates novis qualitatibus imbuendo. Hanc vero conversionem, ex eorum sensu, sequitur, non tempore sed natura, nostra conversio actualis, Deo proliciente ipsum actum credendi & convertendi ex mutata voluntate, quo acta a Deo agit & ipsa, convertendo se ad Deum & credendo, hoc est, actum suum vitalem eliciendo. Addunt divinam illam actionem non laedere voluntatis libertatem, sed roborare: nec extirpare radicitus vitiosam resistendi possibilitatem; sed efficaciter & suaviter dare homini firmam obediendi voluntatem.