Calvin on baptismal regeneration

Calvin:

How much evil has been caused by the dogma, ill expounded, that baptism is necessary to salvation, few perceive, and therefore think caution the less necessary. For when the opinion prevails that all are lost who happen not to be dipped in water, our condition becomes worse than that of God’s ancient people, as if his grace were more restrained than under the Law.

This passage very much does expound Calvin's position on baptismal regeneration, i.e. his obvious position against it. Some things Calvin thought too 'silly' to refute. I think he'd have done better to be more diligent and direct in denouncing the devilish doctrine of baptismal regeneration, yet his position is implicit in all that he wrote. He states clearly his biblical understanding that regeneration is effected by the Word and the Spirit. He just doesn't do it in one place, hence leaving an opening for mendacious clowns and devils to clip endlessly his words out-of-context to bolster their Beast-inspired attacks on apostolic biblical doctrine (Auburn Avenue clowns and devils, can you hear? Oh, no...you are too busy riding above the rabble, sending down your latest "this won't fool the Calvinists, but it might go a ways to fool the iMonk and his type"...)

Well, you've got some numbers there...

(iMonk, iMonk, iMonk... Praising that stupid, shabby, and so juvenile little essay by James B. Jordan to high heaven like you did...)