Regeneration and Total Depravity

The truth of God's regenerating grace, that spiritual renewal and new birth which God works in our hearts by His Spirit, affords us as believers a rich measure of comfort and consolation. As justification is the answer of God's grace to our guilt before the judgment seat of God, so also regeneration, as the first work of God's grace in our hearts, is the answer of God to our spiritual and moral pollution, to that total depravity of nature which is ours according to our first birth after the...