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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 2, 2 A (shelfmark LH 1, 2, 2a)
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maginationem adiuvabant. Et cum superstitio pauta
tino nescio quae ostenta, aut etiam auxilia Deorum a-
pud statuas sibi finxisset vel notare visa esset, quae
Sacrificuli lucrinctae spargebant vel augebant; in
le visa est ipsi statuis peculiaris quadam inese
virtus divinitatis.
His gentium corruptelis patriarchae, nvisibili
substantiae cultores, sise fortiter opposuerunt, quon
inter Abrahamus prculiara se soclere DEO vero
obstrinxit, eaque religione posteros feliciter devin
xit. Certe ab illi- maxime populis, qui Abramida
habentur, seruata est oniu DEI religio, et in reli-
quas iterum gentes parilatim difsusa, et cum tsract
Abrahama nepos, annonae caritate compulsus in Au
ptum descendisset, ibique iscaclitae multiplicati fuis
sent; visum est DEo, ne paulatim illorum constana
tia superstitio sissemae nationis contagio labasceret,
gentem sibi delectam manu forti ex seruitute Phara
onis eduuie, et leges nouas illi per Mosen dare:
quarum ona osu simulaciorum vel omni vel certer
sacro ipsis interdixit, quo magis ab idolorum cultus
quo nihil tunc erat receptius puri conseruarentui
Eadem ratio foctasse durabat sub primis Christia
nis, tutiusque et DE0 et sanctis tunc viris visum
est, in contrariam potius partem declinaie, et
re per se bona atque otili, sed adiaphora tamen, ca
rere, quam teneros adhuc animor parumque firmatos
Necumo