The following is a summary of their re ligious creed :-1. That God is the crea tor and active supporter of all things. 2. That God is ONE, and eternally unchange able. 3. That God is incorporeal, and cannot have any material properties. 4. That God shall eternally subsist. 5. That -God is alone to be worshipped. 6. That whatever has been taught by the prophets is true. 7. That Moses is the head and father of all contemporary doctors, and of all those who lived before, or shall live after him. 8. That the law was given by Moses. 9. That the law shall always ex ist, and never be altered. 10. That God knows all the thoughts and actions of men 11. That God will reward the ob servance, and punish the breach of his 12. The Messiah is to come, though ' he tarry a long time 13. That there shall be a resurrection of the dead when God shall think fit. These doe ' trines, commonly received by the Jews to this day, were drawn up about the end of the eleventh century, by the famous Jewish rabbi, Maimonides.
In England, in former times, the Jews, and all their goods, belonged to the chief lord where they lived ; and he had such an absolute property in them, that he might sell them ; for they had not liberty to remove to another lord without leave.
They were distinguished from the Chris tians in their lives, and at their deaths; for they had proper judges and courts, where their causes were decided. By stat. Edward I. the Jews, to the number of 15,000, were banished out of England; and never returned, till Oliver Cromwell re-admitted them. Whenever any Jew shall pres6it himself to take the oath of abjuration, in pursuance of the 10 George III. c. 10, the words—upon the true faith of a Christian—shall be omitted out of the oath, in administering it to such persons; and the taking the oath, by persons pro fessing the Jewish religion, without these words, in like manner as Jews are admit. ted to give evidence in the courts ofjus tice, shall be deemed a sufficient taking of the abjuration-oath. IfJewish parents refuse to allow their Protestant children a maintenance suitable to their fortune, the Lord Chancellor, upon complaint, may make such order therein as he may think proper.