And as Christ died but once His death being all-sufficient to answer every design to be effected by it so the Holy Spirit by one act works effectually in the soul, producing a spiritual birth and changing the state of its partaker once and for all, so that the regenerated are brought out of and delivered from the power of death and translated into the kingdom of God s dear Son. Without this spiritual birth we cannot see spiritual objects and heavenly blessings in their true worth and excellence. The effect of the new birth is that the man born again loves spiritual things as spiritual and values spiritual blessings on account of their being purely spiritual. The spring of life from Christ enters into him, and is the spring of all his spiritual life, the root of all his graces, the perpetual source of every Divine principle within him. This regeneration introduces the elect into a capacity for the enjoyments which are peculiar to the spiritual world, and makes the one alteration in their state before God which lasts forever.
Regeneration is one and the same in all saints.
It admits of no increase or diminution.