THE PRIMITIVE

HEBREW CHRISTIAN CHURCH

OF

JERUSALEM;

ITS

HISTORY, CHARACTER, AND CONSTITUTION.

BY THE

REV. J. B. CARTWRIGHT, A.M.,

MINISTER OF THE EFISCOPAL JEWS' CHAPEL.

LONDON:

WERTHEIM, ALDINE CHAMBERS, PATERNOSTER ROW.

M DCCC XLII.

293.

TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

MICHAEL SOLOMON,

LORD BISHOP OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF

ENGLAND AND IRELAND

At Jerusalem,

THIS ATTEMPT TO DESCRIBE

THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF

THE CITY OF HIS FATHERS,

THE MOTHER CHURCH OF CHRISTENDOM,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

WITH EARNEST PRAYER THAT THE SPIRIT

OF ITS FIRST BISHOP, ST. JAMES,

MAY REST UPON HIM.

PREFACE.

AMONGST the most remarkable events connected with the history and proceedings of the Church in modern times, it is impossible not to class the appointment of an Anglican Bishop to Jerusalem; whose spiritual jurisdiction is to extend over the English clergy and congregations; and over those who may place themselves under his Episcopal authority in Palestine, Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia; whose chief missionary care will be directed to the conversion of the Jews, to their protection, and to their useful employment; and who is, moreover, charged by the Primate of the English Church, to establish and maintain, as far as in him lies, relations of Christian charity with other Churches represented