Regeneration is an instantaneous work.
Conversion to God, the fruit of regeneration, occupies all our life, but regeneration itself is effected in an instant. And all this is done, mark you, by the instantaneous supernatural influence of God the Holy Spirit working as he wills among the sons of men. What wonders are wrought in the garden of the King. He transplants weeds from the dunghill, and makes them to grow as lilies in the midst of his fair garden. They are not converted against their will, but their will itself is converted.