12. Approaching the enemy's sentinels without leave forbidden. 13. All violence forbidden among the elect. 14. Spoil taken from the enemy to go into a common fund. 15. No renegade to be re-admitted. 16. Caution to be observed in admitting a Christian into one society who leaves another. 17. Converts not to be repelled. 18. Any desiring to live at peace with the Christians, in trade, friendship, and by treaty, not to be rejected. 19. Permission given to dealers and traders to traffic with the elect. 20. No Christian to oppose and revolt against any Gentile magistrate, except the servants of the bishops and the monks. 21. A Gentile culprit not to be remitted the penalty of his crime by joining the Christian sect. 22. Directions about bonds. 23. Sentence to be pronounced against those who violate these laws and despise the Word of God, but not hastily, without the knowledge of the king. 24. No constraint to be used to force on marriages. 25. None afflicted with epilepsy, leprosy, and other diseases, to contract marriage without informing the other contracting party of their condition. 26. Nulla virginis specie, cum virgo non sit, fratrem defraudabit; alioquin serio punietur. 27. Every woman who has not a legitimate husband, to choose from among the community a man to be her guardian and protector. "Given by God and King John the Just, minister of the Most High God, and of the new Temple, in the 26th year of his age and the first of his reign, on the second day of the first month after the nativity of Jesus Christ, Son of God, 1535."[234] [234] Kerssenbroeck, p. 132 _et seq._ The object Bockelson had in view in issuing this edict was to produce a diversion in his favour among the Lutherans. He already felt the danger he was in, from a coalescence of Catholics and Protestants, and he hoped by temperate proclamations and protestations of his adhesion to the Bible, and the Bible only, as his authority, to dispose them, if not to make common cause with him, at least to withdraw their assistance from the common enemy, the Catholic bishop. For the same object he sent letters on the 13th January to the Landgrave of Hesse, and with them a book called "The Restitution" (Von der Wiederbringung), intended to place Anabaptism in a favourable light.[235] [235] Kerssenbroeck, p. 128; Sleidan, p. 420; Hast, p. 373 _et seq._; "Acta, Handlungen," &c., f. 365 b. The king's letter began "Leve Lips" ("Dear Phil"). The Landgrave replied at length, rebuking the fanatics for their rebellion, for their profligacy, and for their heresy in teaching that man had a free will.[236] [236] Sleidan, p. 421.