Why Not Come Out With the Truth?

In his treatise on Infant Baptism, Dr. M. R. De Haan asserts that Reformed teachers theoretically deny baptismal regeneration. Good Reformed theo­logians do indeed deny baptismal regeneration, both theoretically and practically. Though they do deny it, some Reformed (?) theologians teach a view of baptism equally as undesirable. In Dr. Beets' Exposition of Reformed Doctrine, one may happen upon statements such as these: "Children of believers are born in covenant rela­tion. Baptism is for them...