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 ROCK OF AGES 
 
 BY 
 
 AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY 
 
 WITH 
 
 DESIGNS BY MISS L. B. HUMPHREY 
 
 Engraved by John Andrew and Son 
 
 BOSTON: 
 LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.
 
 Copyright. 
 1878. 
 
 By Lee and Shepard. 
 
 All rights reservea.
 
 
 Rock of Ages, cleft for me, 
 
 Let me hide myself in Thee! 
 
 Let the water and the blood. 
 
 From Thy riven side whirh flowed, 
 
 Be of sin the double cure, 
 
 Cleanse me from its guilt and power 
 
 Not the labors of my liands 
 Can fulfil Thy law's demands ; 
 Could my zeal no respite know, 
 Could my tears for ever flow. 
 All for sin could not atone; 
 Thou must save, and Thou alone. 
 
 Nothing in my hand I bring; 
 Simply to Thy Cross I cling ; 
 Naked, come to Thee for dress ; 
 Helpless, look to Thee for grace ; 
 Foul, I to the Fountain fly; 
 Wash me. Saviour, or I die ! 
 
 While T draw this fleeting breath. 
 When my eyestrings break in death, 
 When I soar through tracts unknown, 
 See Thee on Thy judgment-throne; 
 Rock of Ages, cleft for me. 
 Let me hide myself in Thee! 
 
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 Augustus Montague Toplady was born at Farnham, 
 Surrey, England, in 1740. His father fell at the battle of 
 Carthagena, and he was brought up in charge of an exem- 
 plary and pious mother. He was educated at Westminster 
 school. 
 
 At the age of sixteen Toplady chanced to go into a barn 
 at an obscure place, called Codymain, Ireland, to hear an 
 illiterate layman preach. The sermon made upon him an 
 unexpected impression and led to his immediate conver- 
 sion. 
 
 He became a minister of the Church of England, and 
 preached and wrote with self-consuming zeal. 
 
 In the year 1775 his health began to fail. His physician 
 commanded him to go to London, where he became pastor 
 of the French Calvinist Reformed Church. 
 
 In the year of his settlement in London he published in 
 die Gospel Magazine {y\.2iXc\\, 1776) an article entitled "Ques- 
 tions and Answers Relative to the National Debt," in which 
 he adverts to the debt of sin, and shows how multitudinous 
 are the sins of mankind. By numerical calculations he 
 exhibits the enormity of the debt of the redeemed soul, 
 which Christ has cancelled, and impresses the reader with 
 the transcendent love and value of Christ's atonement 
 With these thoughts glowing Hke a vision in his mind, he 
 wrote the hymn beginning, " Rock of Ages, cleft for me." 
 He died in 1778.
 
 (^CJl of ^^gcs, deft for me, 
 ^et uic hide myself in Sliec!
 
 OCK of Ages, cleft for me, 
 Let me hide myself in Thee ! 
 Let the water and the blood, 
 
 From Thy riven side which flowed, 
 
 Be of sin the double cure. 
 
 Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
 
 /or tl)ci) Drank of tl)at spiritual rock tijat follotocti 
 tl)cm ; aul) tijat rock roas (lll)rist. 
 
 Cor. X. 4.
 
 S^ss^^V-, 
 
 OT the labors of my hands 
 Can fulfil Thy law's demands j 
 Could my zeal no respite know, 
 Could my tears for ever flow, 
 All for sin could not atone ; 
 Thou must save, and Thou alone-
 
 ■pc tl)ou nxv strong rock, for an bouse of Defence to 
 
 satje me. 
 
 Psalms xxxi. 2.
 
 Nothing in my hand I bring ; 
 Simply to Thy Cross I cling ;
 
 ILcat) me to tl)c rock tljat is l)tgl)cr tljan 3E. 
 
 Psalms Ixi. 2.
 
 AKED, come to Thee for dress; 
 Helpless, look to Thee 
 for grace ; 
 
 Foul, I to the Fountain fly ; f 
 Wash me, Saviour, or I die ! ^
 
 ^^ tl)e iSliatioro of a circat rock in a tocarr) lanb. 
 
 Isaiah xxxii. 2.
 
 HILE I draw this 
 fleeting breath, 
 
 When my eyestrings 
 break in death, 
 
 When I soar through 
 tracts unknown, 
 
 See Thee on Thy judgment-throne; 
 Rock of Ages, cleft for me. 
 Let me hide myself in Thee!
 
 ^et us make a. joijtu.1 noise to thtiMC 1^ 
 of OUT -Salvation
 
 It t|)i$ rock I toill built) mii cl)ttrrl). 
 
 Matt. xvi. 1 8.
 
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