Lord’s Day 25, Chapter 3: Regeneration Immediate (2)

Even though in this article the gospel is called the "seed of regeneration", it is plain from the description of rebirth in the preceding articles, as well as from this very article in which the quoted expression occurs, that the meaning is not that the preaching of the gospel is the means through which the Holy Spirit effects regeneration in the narrowest, principal sense of the word. For regeneration itself is called a new creation, and is the same as the resurrection from the dead. Even...