Rome's own framework holds that cooperation with grace is itself a gift of grace that God freely gives per His own purposes (not because sinners have earned it).
Therefor, Rome's doctrine points towards election. God's is Sovereign. God's will is free. Mankind's will is under bondage to sin, requiring God's action at every step of salvation.
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My favorite Calvinist is Jesus Christ:
John 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
John 6:39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:65 No one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.
John 10:27-29 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit.
Matthew 11:27 No one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.