Manuscript fair copy, corrected, in Rutherforth's hand, of four controversial letters. The third contains commentary on Blackburne's contribution to the "controversy regarding an intermediate state". The letters are preceded by a table of contents, and all are signed with the initials "T.R."
Alternative Title:
Observations on [Blackburne's] historical view of the controversy concerning an intermediate state
and Observations on Blackburns historical view of the controversy concerning an intermediate state
Description:
Binding: contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards. and Thomas Rutherforth was a Church of England clergyman and moral philosopher who taught at Cambridge and was appointed to the Regius Chair of Divinity there in 1756. His major publications were A System of Natural Philosophy (1748) and Institutes of Natural Law (1754, 1756).
Subject (Name):
Blackburne, Francis,--1705-1787, Church of England.--Thirty-nine Articles--Controversial literature, Rutherforth, T.--(Thomas),--1712-1771, and University of Cambridge--Administration
Subject (Topic):
Intermediate state and Learning and scholarship--Great Britain