Divine leaven – Thomas Brooks

The principle of regeneration, and seed of grace, which God lays into the soul of every penitent person at first conversion is a universal principle, a principle which spreads itself over all the faculties of the soul. In regeneration there is infused the habits or principles of all grace, which like a divine leaven spreads itself over the whole man.

Look! as heaven is contrary to all of hell, and as light is contrary to all darkness, and heat to all cold just so, that divine, that noble, that universal principle of grace, which God at first conversion infuses into the penitent’s soul, is contrary to all sin; and therefore the penitent turns from all sin.