# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068778:0040
# Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/00068778:0040?run=74
# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zu Deutschland LH 12, 3, 4
# Folio 20v, page id 00068778:0040
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 21r); this page is its left half.
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=00068778&page=40
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/00068778/jpgs/default/00000040.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 26 lines, status machine
# Lines: 26 recognised, mean confidence 0.98
# Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German.
# Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text.
# Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote".
# After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line.

potuit, sed potius contra quantum minimum potuit..
Respondeo, concedendo, imperatorem voluisse facere
quantum minimum potuit; sed non potuit minus sa-
cere, quam ut tranquillitati publicae consulere, et fo-
testantes suspicionibus petpdtuis agitatos, et arma
porere dubitantes, in plena securitate collocaret.
Protestantes autem omnes resetationes explode.
bant, et plenissimam atque exuberantissimam vole
bant concessionem, qua fluctus omnes tranguilla-
rentue. Hoc est fundamentum pacis publicae,.
Hac illi fiducia armadeposuere, Itaque concessisse
putandus est imperator quicquidiure potuit,s cum
trecessitas publica sit ipso Ecclesiae jare positiuo fa-
uorabilior; et matrimonia Protestantium sine con-
tificia dispensatione quoad vinculum invalida
esse non sit res parua et negligenda, aut in solo
foro poli consistens; tametsi, ut distinguit Cardi-
nalis
inter effectum matrimonii ciuilem et canonicum
distingueretur, et matrimonia Principum Prote
stantium ciuiliter, et quantum ad legitimitates li-
berorum valida esse concederentur. Dicent enim
Protestantes, eo artificio matrimonia bene com-
posita tuabari, et in Principum familiis discoru
das feri, et parentes, qui P’rincipi filiam nuptum
dedere