First, Regeneration is absolutely necessary to qualify you to do any thing really good and acceptable to God. While you are not born again, your best works are but glittering sins; for though the matter of them is good, they are quite marred in the making. Consider 1. That without regeneration there is no faith, and "without faith it is impossible to please God," Heb. xi. 6. Faith is a vital act of the new-born soul. The Evangelist, showing the different entertainment which the Lord Jesus had from different persons, some receiving him, some rejecting him, points at regenerating grace as the true rise of that difference, without which never any one would have received him. He tells us that "as many as received him" were those "which were born of God," John i. 11-13.
Thomas Boston — Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), on the necessity of regeneration, p. 162
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