Augustus Toplady

Alias: Augustus Montague Toplady

Life

Born: 4 November 1740

Died: 11 August 1778

Biography

Augustus Toplady was an Anglican clergyman and hymnist: as a Calvinist, he was engaged in an extended controversy by pamphlets with John Wesley, an Arminian, as to the historical doctrinal position of the Church of England.

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Settings of text by Augustus Toplady

• Holliston (Daniel Belknap)
• Holy Ghost, dispel our sadness (Benjamin Milgrove)
• How happy are we (Benjamin Milgrove)
• Sweet to rejoice in lively hope (Thomas Clark)
• Thou Lamb of God once slain (Benjamin Milgrove)
• What tho' my frail eyelids refuse (Benjamin Milgrove)

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