… 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 nearest …
Posts Tagged Toplady
… defended as did also Anglican preachers of righteousness such as James Hervey. All this led Toplady in his The Church of England Vindicated and his diaries to argue that Justification from Eternity was true Anglican doctrine.
… superstitions such as his belief in ghosts and his shocking treatment of sound men such as Hervey, Toplady, Erskine, Cennick, Cudworth and the Hill brothers. Murray tells us that it is not his task to enquire into these things. Thus we are only permitted to see Wesley at his Sunday best, with Murray polishing up Wesley’s own down-to-earth accounts to make them more spiritual and gentlemanlike.
Between the lines, we learn that Methodism spread by poaching where Calvinists had already …
Hold Fast
Aug 17
… the author now considers heroes of the faith according to denomination. Romaine, Hervey, Toplady, Newton, Cowper, Berridge, Doudney, Hawker, Krause, Cole and a number of stalwarts unknown to me are given due honour. There is just one consequence-filled historical inaccuracy. Hazleton refers to Cowper’s lines in criticism of Roman Catholicism in Expostulation which were withdrawn after the proofs were ready, feeling that Cowper must have been influenced by Roman Catholic friends. …
… earthquake himself. Indeed, the evangelical giants of the Great Awakening such as Harris, Hervey, Toplady and Whitefield looked upon Ryland as one in the Spirit with them and yet our modern preachers of a legal agenda rather than gospel say Ryland would not tell sinners to flee from the wrath to come!
What strategy lies behind this absurd condemnation? The re-structuring of Ryland has to do with modern efforts to re-structure another most significant character in Baptist history …
… new life in the 18th century, mention is made of Anglican stalwarts such as Whitefield, Hervey, Toplady and Romaine. The works of these men through God’s sovereign grace cannot be praised enough but the fact that recent biographers have highlighted their activities has tended to give the impression that other denominations, such as the Baptists, were quite inactive during this period. This is by no means the case as the testimony of John Gill shows.
John Gill was born in 1697 …
Lecture Subjects
Aug 21
… 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 Traditions
Edward VI …
Welcome
Aug 17
… 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 lead …
… 18th century figure and one over whom the critics have always quarrelled. Great men of God such as Toplady, Grimshaw and Romaine viewed Lady Huntingdon as God’s finest gift to England whereas the only matter that ever united the Fullerites, Arminians and Huntingtonians was their joint harsh criticism of Lady Huntingdon and her Connexion.
The problem is what to choose and what to leave out. Mrs Cook scarcely mentions the alternative opinions of fellow scholars who differ from her …
… 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 …
