Spurgeon, taken from a chapter in his book, 'All of Grace' on regeneration.
Then we may safely conclude that the Lord will give to those who believe all that is declared to be neccessary for salvation. The Lord does in fact, produce the new birth in all who believe in Jesus. Their believing is the surest evidence that they are born again.
We trust in Jesus for what we cannot do ourselves. If it were in our own power, why would we need to look to Him? It is ours to believe; it is the Lords to create us anew. He will not believe for us; neither are we to do the regenerating work for Him. It is enough for us to obey the gracious command. It is for the Lord to work the new birth in us.
But a saving change of heart is the work of the Holy Spirit.
We repent and believe, though we could do neither if the Lord did not enable us. We forsake sin and trust in Jesus. Then we perceive that the Lord has caused us to will and to do of His own good pleasure.
Spurgeon says in the book that when the crushed and broken come to God, they are incapable in themselves of working out their salvation. He says that although it may sound strange to say it they are as dead people although they have come to Christ. There job in regeneration is to trust in Christ, they cannot themselves rid themselves of the sin in them. They must trust Jesus, as clinging to Him as a limpet clings to a rock. He says it is Christ's responsibility to do the changing, their responsibility to look to Him and trust him
My own opinion from reading the book is that he is saying, we repent and believe, and then trust in Jesus for the regeneration of our bodies . He calls this the outworking of our salvation.
I believe it is a marvelous book and would recommend it to anyone to read for themselves. It can be read by going to the website. The book is 34,000 words long. If anyone is struggling as a new Christian I would definately recommend reading this book
www.echurchwebsites.org.uk
I hope I have correctly interpreted what he has written in the book.
BTW You could go straight to the parts on salvation/regeneration if you wanted to clarify what he believes