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# Catalogue record: 62106 — Leibniz an Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff
# Incipit: [...] Theologorum quorundam prudentiam saepe requiro, quibus id unum v
# Date: 1693-01-10 (92-12-31)
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Seckendorff
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II,2 N. 200, AA I,9 N. 129
# Other printings: Grua: Textes, 1948, S. 82-83 (teilw.)
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=62106&katnr=10142
# AA II,2: its series at Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster (online after accepting its terms): https://www.uni-muenster.de/Leibniz/seite5.html
# AA I,9: the volume in the Repositorium des Leibniz-Archivs (CC BY-NC 4.0): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-bd-i-9
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-866575
# Title: LBr. 854 · Seckendorff
# Folios: Bl. 110–111 (from the shelfmark LBr 854 Bl. 110-111 (=10143)): 4 pages, canvases 223–226, page ids DE-611-HS-866575:0223 to DE-611-HS-866575:0226
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-866575&page=223
# Lines: 119 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.93
# Catalogue: Leibniz-Katalog / Arbeitskatalog der Leibniz-Edition (https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/), ed. Arbeitsstelle Potsdam I der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY 4.0.
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## Folio 110r — DE-611-HS-866575:0223
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st Mons. F selk tudoit.
b obitur ejus a) me remisso est
ume et Generosissime.
Ho
Omine
Lerbnitius Seckendorfio
anouerce d. XXXI. dec. 1692
2
Missa quidem est; sed ob obitum sumni
viri intervenientem remista.
fllystrissime et Gencrosissime
domine.
jratulor Treipublicae, quod Cancellariatum, quem vocant
nascentis Acadenice non necusasti; quanquam ea cura nec summa
fortunce indecora videri pcossit, quam Episcoporum duperu L’un-
cipum propriam fuisse constat. Exemplum tuum non tantum
aliquande
cultuqe et natalibus insignem
apad inventutem rebrs gerendis desoinatam valebit; sed et
magnos viros ad ista passim torpentes officu admonebit, ut tandem
aliquando intelligant, spem omnem virilis roboris ab adolescentiae
molli at cerea etate pendere. Stryckui nagnam omnis divini
humanique juris scientian loquuntur scripta; mirificam vim docendi
predicant auditores. Itaque gratulandum est Academice, quod
Poctorem, SsBo quod curarum adjutorem habetis Audire
memini et churzfleis chium ad vos transiturum, cujus ego ex-
quisitam doctrinam et judicium insigne in tractanda omnigena
hifforia plurimi semper feci. Nec dubito alios egregios ios
ad vos accersitum vir, de quibus mihi nondum constat. Thomasium
quoque inter Professores censeri arbituor, cujus exinium ingenium
ab Eristicis ad profutura magis converti velim. Luod si censura
e

## Folio 110v — DE-611-HS-866575:0224
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placet, multa eliam hostes nostri inepté agunt, qua tale de
fricari merentur.
nec despero
De senzelio nobis vindicando saepe cogito
Bheologorum quorundam prudentian sepe requiro, quibus id
nova
unum pe videtur propositum utrsectarum nomina excogitent
sibique adversarios fingent, quos scilicet novi Alcidae Gloriose debellens
contrario scepe eventu, ut ipsi posissimum errores roxios in vulgus
spargant refutandi colore, et haeresin antea imaginariam primi
condant exgitando. Mane Pietisni terriculamentum fuisse docuit
eventus. Se Luretismo adeo obscurares eit, ut ego in ipsa
Roma cum primariis Viris, sed in diversa tendentibus locutus
nondum habeam, quod liquido judicem. Nuper nescio quis titulum
credo novum libro suo grabulatas) de Collegiatisno serist sit
Ut de Fajonismo nihil dicam, eujus diveias Rozaes nondum satis
perspectas habeo; nisi quod audio inmediatum gratice influxum
in animas negare fajonui discipulos quosdam, eum mihi tantn
quicquid est in rebus perfectionis continuo a summo illo boni
enims
fonte immediate manare videatur. Etsi Malebranchio non
assentiar, qui creaturas vi agendi spoliat; sentio tanen, nunquam
creaturam in creatura perfectionem producere, sed tantum eficere
aliquid circa limites perfectioni a Deo datae in creatara positos
auetis vel minutis impedimentis.
n
Dux Aontonius lriue facilé agnovit, solere
verba varie accipi flectique ab audientibus, narranteme, qua d

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des
significaveras nullas Joßr peculiares Guelterbytana Acadenua
judicandi causas fuisse, cum de Gothanoium Frincipum Audus
deliberaretur.
Quobies tot florentes Germaniae Acadenias cogito, aburdem
Diris eruditis, qui facile certent plerisque exterorum; toties doleo
non magis profici ad solida scrediorum augmenta tantumque velut
in orbem rediri, plerisque idem agentibiant actum agentibus, quod si
essent Agono thetie, qui la bores partirentur, qui ad praeclara
tentamina excitarent; si viri docti per societates aut certe per
litererum commercra conferrent consilia, aigno probis viris, ne
dicam sapientibus, candore; consulerent simul et famae et quilti
possemusque paulatim accedere ad magnum illud desideratum red
literarid, repertorium scilicet omnis solida eruditionis. Ego
sane doctrinum omnem humanam soleo comparare amplissence
Tabernd, in qua inmensa pulcherrimarum mercium vis, sed dispersa
sine ordine, sine inventario jacet. Nam multae praeclarae notitiae
extant sparsa in libris multae non inferiores redigendae, adhuc in
litteras inter variarum artium homines latent; quae si collectae, degestae
atque in indices relatae essent, agnoscerenus divina beneficia, ost ibus quostris
opinione majoribas tandem frueremur. quam humani generis foelicitatem
torpor noster in alia secula differt. Sed quam diu non multi dui semiles
aut saltem imitatores exorientur, quorum simul et autorctas in
Republica et sapientia in litteris emineat, semper intra pia desideria
otabimus. Adjicio relationem de novo quodam libro Buueisi. Utinam
spem injectan de suo ad nos accestu aliquando compleas
Historiae

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compendium avide expectamus omnes. Aajicio no tabilem locum contra
Monachos perversos ex Piario Matris Francisci 1. Gallid Regis.
Postremo addo titulum novi osteris, cujus domue primus proxime prodibit,
Leo volente. Auxilia flagito exineditis et editis minus obviis. Fre
plunima dare potes, si modo vacaret describi; sumtus a me prostari par est.
Luod superest Deum precor ex animo sub novi anni initia, ut
faustum ac felicen tibi currere jabeat eum ouga serce non imparium
secuturorum, ut su merites ac glorie tua, nos se quam diutissime
fruamur. Vale, labam Hanoverae 31. Necenbr. 1692
i
Mns
Pournal de Louy se de savoye
dachesse d’Angouleme d’Anjou et
de Valois Mere de Francors 1.
(aumois de decembre
Lan 15225 mon fil7 et moypar
la grace du S. Esprit commencames
à connoistre les ypotrites biancs
noirs, gris, ensumes et de toufes
couleurs, des quels Dieu par
sa clemence et bouté infinie
nous veuille preserver et deffendre.
Car si Jesus Christ n’est menteur
il n’est point de plus dangereuse
generation en toute nature
humaine
lini
ominis
obsequentissimus
idus quicieimus
od
bnitius