Conversion, repentance, being born again and faith all go together, yet I must believe in order to get it, and still they all go together. “Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus”; to be a child you must believe.
A blow and pain are identical as to time, though I must give the blow in order to [have] the pain. Where there is not that settled estimate of the will and mind that looks back and judges everything under grace in the power of the Word, there is repentance and judgment of self all one’s life.
J. N. Darby (from Notes on Second Corinthians)