Author:Thomas Rutherforth

Thomas Rutherforth
(1712–1771)

Works

• Ordo Institutionum Physicarum (1743)
• An Essay on the Nature and Obligations of Virtue (1744)
• A System of Natural Philosophy, being a Course of Lectures in Mechanics, Optics, Hydrostatics, and Astronomy (1748), in 2 vols. (external scan)
• A Defence of the Bishop of London [T. Sherlock]'s Discourses concerning the use and intent of Prophecy; in a Letter to Dr. Middleton (1750)
• The Credibility of Miracles defended against [David Hume] the Author of Philosophical Essays (1751)
• Institutes of Natural Law; being the substance of a Course of Lectures on Grotius de Jure Belli et Pacis (1754–6), in 2 vols.
• A Letter to … Mr. Kennicott, in which his Defence of the Samaritan Pentateuch is examined, and his second Dissertation on the State of the printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament is shewn to be in many instances Injudicious and Inaccurate (1761)
• A Vindication of the Right of Protestant Churches to require the Clergy to subscribe to an established Confession of Faith and Doctrines, in a Charge delivered at a Visitation in July 1766 (1766)
• A Second Vindication of the Right of Protestant Churches,’ &c. (1766)
• A Defence of a Charge concerning Subscriptions, in a Letter to [F. Blackburne] the Author of the Confessional (1767)

Works about Rutherford

• "Rutherforth, Thomas," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.