Works of Augustus Toplady, vol 1

By Augustus Toplady.

The Works of Augustus Toplady

Volume 1

By Augustus Toplady.

Augustus Toplady 1740 -1778

Augustus Toplady served in several churches throughout his career as an Anglican minister. His first appointment was as curate at Blagdon in Somerset, England in 1762. He then served as vicar of Broad Hembury in Devon from 1765 to 1767.

In 1768, Toplady moved to London and became a preacher at the French Calvinist Church in Threadneedle Street. He also served as a minister at Tottenham High Cross in London from 1768 to 1775, and at St. Giles-in-the-Fields in London from 1775 until his death in 1778.


Contents Book 1:


Memoirs of The Rev. Augustus Montague Toplady, A.B.
Last Will of Toplady
Elegiac Poem on the death of the Author
Calvinism Introduction & Advertisement
SECTION I. – Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of The Church of England.
SECTION II. – Arminianism charged and proved on the Church of Rome.
SECTION III. – The Judgment of the council of Trent, concerning the Doctrines called Calvinistic.
SECTION IV. – The Arminianism of the Church of Rome farther evinced, in her Treatment of Jansenius and Quesnell.
SECTION V. – The Objection, drawn from the supposed Calvinism of Thomas Aquinas, refuted, with a word concerning St. Austin.
SECTION VI. – The Charge of Ranterism refuted and retorted.
SECTION VII. – An Enquiry into the Judgment of the earliest Fathers, concerning the Points in Question.
SECTION VIII. – The Judgment of some eminent Christians, who flourished before the Reformation, concerning the Doctrines in Debate.
SECTION IX. – The Judgment of some eminent Persons, prior to the Reformation, continued.
SECTION X. – The Judgment of several eminent Persons, who flourished in England, antecedently to the Reformation.
SECTION XI. – The Charge of Mahometanism refuted.
SECTION XII. – The Judgment of the most eminent English Martyrs, who suffered for the Gospel, prior to the Settlement of the Reformation.
SECTION XIII. – The Judgment of our English Reformers.
SECTION XIV. – The Judgment of our English Reformers concluded.
SECTION XV. – Of the Share which Calvin had in the Reformation of the Church of England.