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What we have said is sufficient, as one can see, to show how unreasonably and thoughtlessly these people trouble the Lord’s church. They arouse questions and debates in order to censure the holy observance which has always, since the time of the apostles, been carefully kept by the faithful. It is sufficient because we have clearly proved that the baptism of children has certain and assured foundation in the holy scripture, and on the contrary we have abundantly refuted all the objections which they are accustomed to make against it. So we do not doubt that all good servants of God, after having read this treatise, may be clearly satisfied and perceive with their eyes that all the attacks which are made to overturn and abolish this holy ordinance are deceitful machinations of the devil, in order to diminish the comfort that the Lord wanted to give us by His promise, and by so much to obscure the glory of His name—which is the more exalted the more the generosity of His mercy is fully poured out on people. For when the Lord visibly testifies to us by the sign of baptism that for love of us He wants to pay attention to our posterity and to be the God of our children, do we not have good grounds to rejoice as David did, when we consider that the Lord takes the role of a good father of a family for us, extending His providence not only over us but over those who are ours after our death? In that rejoicing God is particularly glorified.

This is why Satan strives to deprive our children of the communication of baptism—so that when this testimony that the Lord ordained in order to confirm for us the graces which He wants to give our children has been erased from before our eye, we might likewise little by little forget the promise which He has given us for them. From that would follow not only ingratitude and lack of recognition of the Lord’s mercy toward us but a negligence in instructing our children in the fear and discipline of His law and in the knowledge of His gospel. For it is a significant goad to incite us to nourish them in true piety and obedience to God when we hear that from their birth the Lord has received them among His people, as members of His church. That is why, not rejecting our Lord’s great kindness, let us boldly present to Him our children, to whom He has given entrance by His promise into the company of those whom He avows for household members of His house, which is the Christian church. (John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1541 French edition, trans. by Elsie Anne McKee, chapter 11, “Of Baptism”)