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AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY (1740-1778)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE See also:TOPLADY (1740-1778)  , See also:Anglican divine, was See also:born at See also:Farnham, See also:Surrey, and educated at See also:Westminster and Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin . Although originally a follower of See also:Wesley, he in 1758 adopted extreme Calvinist opinions . He was ordained in 1762 and became See also:vicar of Harpford with Fenn-Ottery, See also:Devonshire, in 1766 . In 1768 he exchanged to the living of Broadhembury, Devonshire . He is chiefly known as a writer of See also:hymns and poems, including " See also:Rock of Ages," and the collections entitled Poems on Sacred Subjects (Dublin, 1759) and See also:Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private See also:Worship (See also:London, 1776) . His best See also:prose See also:work is the Historic See also:Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the See also:Church of See also:England (London, 1774) . Some comments by Wesley upon See also:Toplady's presentation of Calvinism led to a controversy which was carried on with much bitterness on both sides . Toplady wrote a venomous See also:Letter to Mr Wesley (1770), and Wesley repeated his comments in The Consequence Proved (1771), Whereupon Toplady replied with increased acridity in More Work for Mr Wesley (1772) . From 1775 to 1778, having obtained leave of non-See also:residence at Broadhembury, he lived in London, and ministered at a Calvinist church in See also:Orange See also:Street .

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