Then a priest shall interrogate and examine how the child was baptized. If it is right, he shall confirm such baptism and say that it is right, and order the godparents to be witnesses of it; then he shall lead the child with the godparents, women and others before the high altar and read over the child the faith, the Gospel of Marci 10, kneel and pray a Lord's Prayer, after which he shall say the last prayer from the baptismal booklet and let them go.
Such a child should not be exorcised, lest we call the Holy Spirit, who is certainly with the child, an evil spirit.
But if it is found otherwise, that the child is not properly baptized, or that the people cannot report anything certain, then the priest baptizes it freely; for it is true, as Augustine says: Non potest dici iteratum, quod ita nescitur esse factum (that is: We cannot repeat what we do not know has already happened); we must be certain of the Sacrament as of God's Word.
Here also the priests should beware that they do not baptize cum conditione: si tu non es baptiza- tus (i.e. conditionally: "if you are not baptized"); for it has been an unpleasant abuse, so that both, the first and the other baptism, become uncertain, and is called no more, than thus: If the first baptism is right, this one is wrong; if this one is right and valid, which one is it? I do not know.
We allow it to happen that God will credit us and those who have been baptized with such abuse; but now that the truth is so bright in the day, we want to do it according to Christ's command, as said, so that our faith may stand.