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A memoir of some principal circumstances in the life and death of the Reverend and learned Augustus Montague Toplady: ... to which are added, written by himself, The dying believer's address to his soul, and his own last will and testament.
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1778 (Publication)
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4to, 1 volume
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TOPLADY, AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE, son of Maj. Richard Toplady, Army officer, and Catherine, sister of Charles Stanhope Bate (qv); b. 4 Nov 1741 (but IGI gives baptism as at Farnham, Surrey 29 Nov 1740, sic); at school in Apr 1752 (his diary, printed Christian Observer xxx, 552, issue for September 1830); Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 11 Jul 1755; BA 1760; ordained deacon (Bath & Wells) 5 Jun 1762, priest 16 Jun 1764; Curate, Blagdon, Somerset, 1762, afterwards of Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset; Rector of Harpford with Venn Ottery, Devon, 6 May 1766 - 23 Jan 1768; Vicar of Broadhembury, Devon, from 6 Apr 1768; went to live in London for reasons of health 1775; officiated at French Calvinist Reformed Church, Orange Street; a strenuous champion of extreme Calvinism, and engaged in an unseemly dispute on this subject with John Wesley; edited The Gospel Magazine Dec 1775 - Jun 1776; his well-known hymn, Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, was published in that magazine Oct 1775; author, The Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England, 1774 and other works; d. 11 Aug 1778. DNB.
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