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This is a biography on the little known hymn writer of Rock of Ages, Augustus Toplady. He was converted under the preaching of a Methodist, a couple years later changed his beliefs to Calvinism, and spent a good deal of his life writing against and attacking the theology of John Wesley. Whether you agree with his theology or his tact, it’s worth reading about an influential evangelical from the past and this free biography enables you to do so.

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What is one to make of a man described as ‘strangely compounded, peculiarly constituted, and oddly framed’? It conjures up in the mind an image of Stevenson’s Mr. Hyde, or Shelley’s Frankenstein, or Hugo’s Quasimodo. But such is J. C. Ryle’s (1816–1900) description of Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778), author of what has been called the best-loved English hymn.

One wonders why someone would bother writing a biography—or reading one—about a strange, peculiar, odd person. Nevertheless, Ryle declared that no account of Christianity in England in the eighteenth century would be complete without featuring remarkable Toplady.

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