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Brotherly Strife

Augustus Toplady, who wrote the famous hymn "Rock of Ages," called John Wesley a "tadpole in divinity." Wesley in turn called Toplady "the most rancorous hater of the gospel system." Nevertheless, in Toplady's 1776 hymnal, "Rock of Ages" stood next to Charles Wesley's "Jesu, Lover of My Soul."

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