Augustus Montague Toplady (November 4, 1740-August 11, 1778) composed the hymn, Rock of Ages, which originally appeared in the Gospel Magazine, October of 1775:
<Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.> 1740AT001
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1740AT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Augustus Montague Toplady,October 1775, published the hymn, Rock of Ages, in the Gospel Magazine. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 386.