An Answer To a Pamphlet, entitled, Considerations on the Bill to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion to be naturalized;
Wherein the false reasoning, gross misrepresentation of facts, and perversion of scripture, are fully laid open and detected.
Stock Code 107092
[London], Reprinted by the citizens of London, 1753
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In 1752–53 Romaine became nationally known for opposing a bill before Parliament relating to 'the naturalisation of those professing the Jewish religion'. He produced an opposing pamphlet and preached a sermon in which he took the ill-chosen text, These people being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city (Acts 16:20).' (John Crosby, Evangelical Times).
The Jewish Naturalisation Act of 1753 sought to remove the requirement for foreign-born individuals 'professing the Jewish Religion' (26 George 2 c.26) to receive Holy Communion, a stipulation which had hitherto prevented non-Christians from obtaining British citizenship. Despite receiving the royal assent, an anti-Semitic backlash stoked-up by propaganda misrepresenting the terms of the act led to its repeal the following year.
Second edition. 8vo, title page and several leaves with extensive conservation and repair (no loss to text), modern green cloth gilt; [8], 5-67, [1] pp.
The Jewish Naturalisation Act of 1753 sought to remove the requirement for foreign-born individuals 'professing the Jewish Religion' (26 George 2 c.26) to receive Holy Communion, a stipulation which had hitherto prevented non-Christians from obtaining British citizenship. Despite receiving the royal assent, an anti-Semitic backlash stoked-up by propaganda misrepresenting the terms of the act led to its repeal the following year.
Second edition. 8vo, title page and several leaves with extensive conservation and repair (no loss to text), modern green cloth gilt; [8], 5-67, [1] pp.
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