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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg LH 23, 2, 11
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servare, quam consumere intempestivi decimun
jam Electorem creando,. qui fortasse talis non
esset qualem aliquande optarent.
Sed considerare nunc vicissim oportet, quam
multa protestantibus decedere possint, etiamsi
tantum Collegium Electorale spectebur.
Nam prater extinctionem elecoratus
Bransvi censis valde possibilem, generatim
dici potest omnes selectoratus protestantes
posse ad Romapo- Catholicos transire. Nam
em
ar potest, ut princeps
Aponnagiastus, Nomanam Religuenem sequatur
Unde iam contingere potest, ut Cleetoratus
atit autem casus tanto magis pericu,
losus esset probestantibus, quanto pauciora
suffragia habent. Et quod sic amiteitur, simul
alteri parti accrescit. Et exemplo translati
salatinatus constat, hoc solo protestantes
ad nimiam paucitatem
in Collegio pene ad summus angustias fuisse
redactos.
c
ros am matmansholicosraus alt
nissibiles quam Romano-catholicos. Talisalitem
) Et dam Serotestantes tantum tres habeant habent
Electores in universum; contra, Romano-Cabholici
tres habennt inamissibiles Electores, ce
clesiasticos nempe; quos ideo patet consideratione futuri et fecaritatis
ipsa certitudine conservationis
jam cateri Romano-Catholici Electores in computo addantur
compatum veniant, protestantium socuritas
multo minum
in altera lance collocata param ad modum
momenti habebit.
(40 Qua sanc omnia onstendunt, quanto maios causa foret
causa sit protestantibus quam Romano-
Catholicis de futuro cogitandi, omnique conatu
dum licet annitendi ut religionis suae
prospicietur, eiusque autoritas etiam in
collegio Electorali sarta terta servetur 
Hague dubitari potest an consultum sit
nimis anxio omnia contra protestantes
conquiri; ne et ipsi multo justiores
rationes
gravioresque metuendi causas attentius
considerare cogantur, quarum aliquas
sane maximas mox attingemus
(42) Inprimis autem suspiciones augerentur
atque exacerbarentur animi, si viderent
protestantes moderationi suae malam
referri gratiam, et optimo animo acta sinistris
antonteis cater pretationibas in deterias
Hc hoc periculo nihit hic attingend
tac sibi prospiciendi,