...Plead and claim my peace with God." Toplady's own heading to this his most celebrated hymn reads thus, "A living and dying prayer for the holiest believer in the world." Many a dying saint has expressed his feelings at that solemn period in the very words of this prayer...

...the author of that grand hymn, No. 257 (CHB), " Rook of Ages, cleft for me. " The author entitled it, "A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer in the World " — evidently a shot at Wesley. None will doubt that they are now singing in peaceful harmony in...

...Ages," was inserted in that Magazine for 177(5, at the end ef a series ef Questions and Answers, and is entitled, " A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer in the World," and signed "A. Т." (Fur particulars, see Notes to Hymn Ш, in a previous part of the " Companion....

...Magazine" for 1776 — of which publication he was the founder and first editor — with the title of " A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer in the World." The affectionate interest with which succeeding generations have regarded it, was, if possible, lately...

...changes from Faber's original made in Hymns Ancient and Modern. ' Rock of Ages, cleft for me,' Toplody's world-renowned hymn, is founded on the marginal rendering...though he has evidently based his work on ' While my JESITS I'm possessing,' by Allen. Montgomery wrote ' Go to dark Gethsemane,' n hymn rendered appropriate...

...minister of the gospel had long been 1 The original prefix of this hymn given by Mr. Toplady was " A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer in the World," and was intended to be a protest against what the author supposed to be the Wesleyan view of Christian...

...Christian's privilege. It was in his zeal against this illusion that he entitled his ' ' Rock of Ages/' " A living and dying PRAYER for the HOLIEST BELIEVER in the world." But Wesley was as innocent of this alleged heresy as was Toplady himself; and no believer in the world...

...which it appears in our book it has undergone several great improvements. Its original title was " A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer in the world." The late Prince Albert repeated portions of it in his affliction, and derived great consolation from...

...in the "Gospel Magazine " for March, 1776, which its author, at that time, edited. He styled it, " A living and dying prayer for the holiest believer in the world." Toplady's admirable hymns are full of great Scriptural doctrines, and of the richest and deepest experience...

...; 388 Dapt.; 156 Chope; 99 Hall; 177 Mtreer ; 41 -5". y. C. Jf.; 109 Sal.; 624 Wes.; and almost all 'A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer in the World.' The hymn is given at the end of an article in prose, which is a spiritual improvement of a preceding...