Augustus Toplady Quotes

• 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.

  Augustus Toplady

  Thinking, Power, Men

  Augustus Montague TOPLADY (1837). “The Works of Augustus Toplady ... A New Edition, Complete in One Volume. Printed Verbatim from the First Edition of His Works, 1794”, p.546

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• Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

  Augustus Toplady

  Grace, Debtors, Beggar

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• When Christ entered into Jerusalem the people spread garments in the way: when He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ's feet but even trample upon it ourselves.

  Augustus Toplady

  Heart, Sunday, Feet

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.263

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• Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling

  Augustus Toplady

  Easter, Hands, Crosses

  Augustus Montague Toplady, “Rock Of Ages, Cleft For Me”

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• 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.

  Augustus Toplady

  Men, Hands, Free Will

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.283

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• Not the labors of my hands
  Can fulfill thy Law's demands:
  Could my zeal no respite know,
  Could my tears forever flow,
  All for Sin could not atone:
  Thou must save, and Thou alone!

  Augustus Toplady

  Hands, Law, Forever

  Augustus Montague Toplady, “Rock Of Ages, Cleft For Me”

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• Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.

  Augustus Toplady

  Rocks, Age, Thee

  "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me" (hymn) (1776)

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• 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.

  Augustus Toplady

  Heaven, Grace, Gracious

  Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady, Justus Lipsius (1811). “The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted:”, p.181

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

  Augustus Toplady

  Church, Going To Church, Believer

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.274

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• Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

  Augustus Toplady

  Free Gifts, Holiness, Repentance

  Augustus Toplady (1794). “The Works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.250

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• How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But not for works which we have done, or shall hereafter do, hath God decreed on sinful men salvation to bestow.

  Augustus Toplady

  Men, Guilt, Done

  Augustus Montague Toplady, “How Vast The Benefits DIVIne”

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• The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.

  Augustus Toplady

  Cities, Rivers, People

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.274

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

  Augustus Toplady

  Should, Ifs

  Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.435

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• Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.

  Augustus Toplady

  Christian, Race, Giving

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• 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.

  Augustus Toplady

  Finals, Holiness, Scripture

  "The works of Augustus M. Toplady".

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• I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes.

  Augustus Toplady

  Men, Agency, Evil

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• I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

  Augustus Toplady

  Prayer, Heaven, Soul

  Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady, Justus Lipsius (1811). “The doctrine of absolute predestination stated and asserted”, p.21

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