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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 13
# Folio 26v, page id 00068374:0052
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dicunt, quod imagines sanctorum et creaturarum colere ut
Deos, jure naturae semper fuerit et sit prohibitum; eas
vero facere et habere fuerit solum praeceptum ceremoniale
sicut illud de Sabbatho, et per consequens, quod tum solas
Zudeos, nunc vero Christianos nil obliget, tolerantur quoque,
dum idem in Bs. exVI. 19. tab. Chron. Calvinus. Gualt. sect.
ima veritate 3a 8. 15. p. 76. eum Glossa Herdelberus. et
Belgica, tenet, Arcam fuisse imaginem Dei, dumque de hoc
ait: Symbolum illud datum fuisse dsraelitis, non inquod
desigerent mentes, sed quo potius adjurarentur ad spiritualem
Dei caltum. Tolerantur pariter Lutheranc, qui passim ima-
gines, praesertim Christi in ecclesiis actu adhibent: Luare
tolerantur? qua in illis non desigunt mentes suas, iis nimi-
rum aliquid intrinsecue virtutis attribuendo, sed se se solum
ad spiritualia excitando. Su Romane dic et fac idem
et tolerabilis eris; Abstine saltim ab Imaginibus Trinita-
fis, aut divinitatis, circa quas tui ipsimet quaestiones mo-
vent. Abstine ab excessibus circa eas, quas miraculosasc re-
dis. Sivero Deum in allarum praesentia colere intendis, u
tere illo moderamine eultus, quo Joraëlitae adeo miraculosum
ehristi imaginem, aeneum scil. serpentem, fide in Deum so-
lum, non in ipsam, excitata, reverenter ac obedienter in-
spiciebant. Rejice illam feremoniarum extremitatem, quae,
si non prudentibus, saltem pletejis alicujus doctrince allis
mexestistentis virtutis apprehensionem, imo diololatriae
re-