Fourth dispute: lay baptism in necessity; antiquity less scrupulous, yet women kept from administering it
Fourth and last: controversy about a layperson administering baptism in a case of necessity. On that point antiquity was not so scrupulous, as Tertullian shows, and Grotius, Salmasius, and others agree
Women, however, are constantly shut out from administering it — and not in one Tertullian passage only: On Baptism, On the Veiling of Virgins, and On the Prescription of Heretics, as G. J. Vossius cites them in Disputation XI.
So also in the African canons, Council of Carthage IV, canon c (Councils, tom. II): A woman must not presume to baptize — which some absurdly restrict to times when priests are present.
Latin
4. Talis tandem Controv. circa administrum Laicum, in casu necessitatis, qua in re non ita scrupulosa fuit Antiquitas, ut ex Tertulliano visum, accedentibus Grotio, Salmasio, aliis; supra pag. 311. 312. Mulieribus tamen ab ejus administratione constanter exclusis, non uno apud Tertull. loco, de Baptismo, de Velandis Virginib. de Praescriptione Haeretic. citatis G. J. Vossio, Disp. XI. Sed & in Canonibus Africanis, Concil. Carthag. IV. Can. c. Tomo II. Conc. Mulier baptizare non praesumat, quod absurde nonnulli ita limitant, praesentibus Sacerdotibus.