Augustus toplady quotes
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Augustus Toplady
Toplady, Augustus Montague, the author of "Rock of Ages," was born at Farnham, Surrey, November 4, 1740. His father was an officer in the British army. His mother was a woman of remarkable piety. He prepared for the university at Westminster School, and subsequently was graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. While on a visit in Ireland in his sixteenth year he was awakened and converted at a service held in a barn in Codymain. The text was Ephesians ii. 13: "But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." The preacher was an illiterate but warm-hearted layman named Morris. Concerning this experience Toplady wrote: "Strange that I, who had so long sat under the means of grace in England, should be brought nigh unto God in an obscure part of Ireland, amidst a handful of God's people met together in a barn, and under the ministry of one who could hardly spell his name. Surely this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous." In 1758, through the influence of sermons preached by Dr. Manton on the seventeenth chapter of Jo
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Augustus Toplady
English Anglican cleric and hymn writer (1740–1778)
Augustus Montague Toplady (4 November 1740 – 11 August 1778) was an English Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of John Wesley. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages". Three of his other hymns – "A Debtor to Mercy Alone", "Deathless Principle, Arise" and "Object of My First Desire" – are still occasionally sung today.
Background and early life, 1740–55
Augustus Toplady was born in Farnham, Surrey, England in November 1740. His father, Richard Toplady, was probably from Enniscorthy, County Wexford in Ireland. Richard Toplady became a commissioned officer in the Royal Marines in 1739; by the time of his death, he had reached the rank of major. In May 1741, shortly after Augustus' birth, Richard participated in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741), the most significant battle of the War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–42), during the course of which he died, most likely of yellow fever,[1] leaving Augustus' mother to raise t
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Augustus Montague Toplady, 1740-1778
Notes from Dr. Julian's Hymnology:
Toplady was born at Farnham in Surrey on Nov. 4th. 1740. His father, Richard Toplady, was a Major in the British Army, and was killed at the siege of Carthagina (1741) soon after the birth of his son. His widowed mother placed him at the renowned Westminster School, London. Bye and bye, circumstances led her to Ireland, and young Augustus was entered at Trinity College, Dublin, where he completed his academic training, ultimately graduating M.A. He also received his "new birth" in Ireland under remarkable conditions, as he himself tells us with oddly mixed humility and lofty self estimate as "a favourite of heaven". "Strange that I who had so long sat under the means of grace in England, should be brought right unto God in an obscure part of Ireland, midst a handful of people met in a barn, and by the ministry of one who could hardly spell his own name. Surely it was the Lord's doing and it is marvellous. The regenerating Spirit breathes not only on whom, but likewise when and whe
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