“…verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3

If regeneration is so essential that without it no salvation is to be expected, how greatly man ought to be concerned that he be born again! For by nature he is unregenerate, dead, and on the way to perdition. How concerned everyone should be to know what his state is in this respect! How man ought to ask himself: Am I one of them? Ask yourself the question: Have I already been regenerated? Take heed to your answer, for there is no third state. 

– Wilhelmus a Brakel