Augustus Toplady Quotes

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October 4, 1740 – August, 11, 1778.

Augustus Montague Toplady was an Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of John Wesley. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages". Three of his other hymns – "A Debtor to Mercy Alone", "Deathless Principle, Arise" and "Object of My First Desire" – are still occasionally sung today.

Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?

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- Love
- Loved
- For Him
That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.

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To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

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- Death
- Church
- Believer
I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

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- Soul
- Heaven
- Praises
Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling.

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- Hand
- Cross
- Cling
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

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- Will
- Judgment
- Leave
Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

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Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

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- Grace
- Beggars
- Debtors

Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

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- Heaven
- Grace
- Gracious
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

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- Soul
- Will
- Cure