… Sir: Graham Hind’s June review sadly hides all I wrote in remembrance of that godly man, Augustus Toplady. Instead, he shows preference for John Wesley, disdain for the Gospel Magazine and disinterest in the great work of God done through the pre-Rebellion Reformed Church of England. Hind’s simplistic etymology is used as an excuse for his lack of attention to the subject matter.
Rather than refute Toplady by praising Wesley, one must ask oneself which Christian stood …
Posts Tagged Augustus Toplady
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… Poet of Purity
Anne Hutchinson (1591-1634): The Failure of the New England Experiment
Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778): A Debtor to Mercy Alone
Christopher and Mary Love: Like Name, Like Nature.
Cotton Mather (1663-1728): New England Pietist
Daniel Featley ( 1582-1645): Contender for the Faith
David A. Doudney and his Walks and Talks with Jesus
David Brainerd (1718-1747): God’s Hiawatha
Edmund Grindal (c. 1519-1583): Upholder of Biblical Truths Against Popish …
Welcome
Aug 17
… he is far more Sublapsarian than Calvin himself. One can also add to this list William Romaine, Augustus Toplady, Robert Traill, James Hervey, William Huntington and all those of like calibre who are now frowned on by our Reformed Establishment, though they were pillars of the faith and men who moved mountains in their day.
A second aim of this web site is to introduce readers to some of God’s servants who, though convinced, sturdy Christians, allowed their zeal in God’s Providence to …
Books
Aug 21
… , Go Publications.
1999, Mountain Movers: Champions of the Faith, Go Publications.
2000, Augustus Toplady: A Debtor to Mercy Alone (with Anthology ), joint publishers, Go Publications and the Gospel Magazine.
2000, William Cowper: The Man with God’s Deep Stamp upon Him: A Bicentenary Appreciation, Joshua Press. Nominated by Prof. Timothy George for the John Pollock Award.
2001, The Free Offer & The Call of the Gospel, Go Publications.
2002, Isaac McCoy: Apostle of …
Welcome
Aug 17
… he is far more Sublapsarian than Calvin himself. One can also add to this list William Romaine, Augustus Toplady, Robert Traill, James Hervey, William Huntington and all those of like calibre who are now frowned on by our Reformed Establishment, though they were pillars of the faith and men who moved mountains in their day.
A second aim of this web site is to introduce readers to some of God’s servants who, though convinced, sturdy Christians, allowed their zeal in God’s Providence to …
… the Reformation and the preaching of such 18th century stalwarts as John Gill, James Hervey and Augustus Toplady are being given up for the teachings of a comparatively nobody who is being re-created as a star, given VIP treatment and promoted as the new Luther, the trumpet blast, the sounder of the alarm, the one who fanned the smoking wick of the evangelical Awakening into a blaze and the prophet of the new evangelism. This person is none other than Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) who is being …
To Honour God
Aug 17
… Cromwell, could be mistaken for a true patriot. Challenging the ‘Puritan’ image of Cromwell, Augustus Toplady, lover of the doctrines of grace as he was, castigated Cromwell for being the dupe of Arch-Arminian John Goodwin. These were Reformed Anglican critics and we might expect more respect from the Dissenting side, but we will be disappointed. Edward Calamy, in his famous Abridgement of the Life of Baxter mentions time and time again Cromwell’s scheming trickery, promise-breaking …
… in salvation, and that God’s Spirit alone is the author of the faith whereby you believe”. Augustus Toplady, writing in the 18th Century, tells us “The justification of God’s people, thus founded upon, resulting from, and secured by, the imputed righteousness of Christ.... is absolute and total “. William Cowper wrote to his cousin Martin Madan concerning imputed righteousness:
“I plead guilty to the Doctrine of original corruption, derived to me from my great …
… Entering the ministry as an unconverted man
This ‘holy and judicious’ person, as Augustus Toplady describes Crisp, was born into a family of London sheriffs and aldermen and was educated at Eton, Cambridge and Oxford, finishing his studies by gaining a D.D.. He married Mary Wilson, an Alderman’s daughter, and the couple were blessed with thirteen children. He was ordained Rector of Brinkworth in Wiltshire in the year 1627. It seems that Crisp entered the ministry as an …
… are worthy of note. Although he considers a statements by John Ryland Jnr who denied that Brine, Toplady and Gill met Naylor’s definition of a Hyper-Calvinist and although he quotes the Baptist historian Ivimey who believed that Gill’s ‘correct statements’ were misunderstood by some of his followers, he still holds that, “Among the Baptists of the period, John Gill was without doubt the most prominent exponent of high Calvinism”. He then goes on to quote Lewis Wayman and John …
