Thomas Houston on baptism in John Calvin's Institutes

[Reformed Covenanter]

If anyone every asks how valuable John Calvin's Institutes are for their defence of infant baptism, feel free to cite this quote:

Calvin, in his immortal work, the Institutes, has stated and vindicated the right of the infant seed of the members of the Church to the visible seal of God’s covenant, with a fullness of statement, and a cogency of reasoning, that have never been surpassed, and that the opponents of infant baptism cannot gainsay or refute.

Thomas Houston, A practical treatise on Christian baptism (1853) in Works: doctrinal and practical of the Rev. Thomas Houston, D.D., Knockbracken (4 vols, Edinburgh, 1876), iii, 85-6.