Augustus Montague Top Lady
Augustus Montague Toplady (born November 4, 1740 in Farnham , † August 11, 1778 in London ) was an Anglican clergyman and hymn writer.
Life
After studying at Westminster School and Trinity College in Dublin , he was ordained a priest in 1762 and initially worked as a vicar in Devon . After Toplady initially followed the Methodist school of John Wesley , he later took extreme Calvinist positions and became his teacher's declared rival. The dispute between the two theologians was to culminate in a heated literary exchange of blows. Toplady's Letter to Mr Wesley (1770) was followed by The Consequence Proved (1771), to which Toplady responded even more sharply with More Work for Mr Wesley (1772).
Toplady was best known as the author of numerous sacred songs. Most famous was Rock of Ages from 1775, in which he emphasized the deterministic point of view of Calvinism in particular. He was inspired to do this when he found refuge from a storm in a crevice. In addition, the collection Poems on Sacred Subjects (Dublin, 1759) and Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship (London, 1776) should be mentioned. The Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England (London, 1774) is considered to be Toplady's best prose work .
Toplady spent the last years of his life in London , where he worked in a Calvinist church on Orange Street.
Works
- The Complete Works of Augustus Toplady . Harrisonburg 1987. ISBN 1-59442-078-5
Web links
- Toplady and His Ministry ( September 29, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive ) by JC Ryle
- The story of "Rock of Ages" and a short biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Top lady, Augustus Montague |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Anglican minister and hymn writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Farnham |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1778 |
| Place of death | London |