Tertullian

“ But the woman of pertness, [9] who has usurped the power to teach, will of course not give birth for herself likewise to a right of baptizing, unless some new beast shall arise [10] like the former; so that, just as the one abolished baptism, [11] so some other should in her own right confer it! ”

“ Let it suffice assuredly, in cases of necessity, to avail yourself (of that rule [8] , if at any time circumstance either of place, or of time, or of person compels you (so to do) ; for then the stedfast courage of the succourer, when the situation of the endangered one is urgent, is exceptionally admissible; inasmuch as he will be guilty of a human creature’s loss if he shall refrain from bestowing what he had free liberty to bestow. ”