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“A child should be presented to God, to receive Baptism purely, according to the institution [of the Holy Bible]. He is instead defiled [by magical sacramentalism] with many perverse and profane ceremonies. It is quite true that Baptism does not on that account fail to have its virtue as far as the child is concerned. Because God’s ordinances [such as Paedobaptism] are not abolished by the foolish inventions of men” such as Romish and Eastern-‘Orthodox’ baptismal regenerationism. — John Calvin: A Short Treatise Setting Forth What the Faithful Man Must Do When He is Among Papists and He Knows the Truth of the Gospel (1543)
