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November 1740 A.D. Augustus
Toplady Born—Author of “Rock of Ages” and Calvinism
in the Church of England
Augustus Toplady (1740 to 1778)
Church of England
Was his famous hymn written in a split rock?
Birth of Augustus Toplady. Converted at age 15 in
Dublin, Ireland, through the evangelistic outreach of Methodists, he was
ordained in 1762 into the ministry of the church of England and became a strict
Calvinist, strongly opposed to the Methodists. At eighteen he wrote his first
hymn, "Great God, Whom Heaven and Earth and Sea..." But his most
famous hymn, "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me," was written in 1775 when
he was 34. Tradition says he wrote it while sheltering from a storm in a rock
crevice. He died two years later of tuberculosis and overwork.
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