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| Rock of Ages |
| “The Lord is my Rock” (Psalm 18:2). “For Thou hast been…a refuge from the storm” (Isaiah 25:4). |
| I have been to Burrington Combe in England, and I have a photograph of myself standing in the cleft of the rock to prove it. |
| According to a famous but largely unsubstantiated story, Augustus Toplady sheltered in this cleft in the rock during a heavy storm there in Burrington Combe, at the southern end of the Mendip Hills. Toplady, a preacher in the nearby village of Blagdon, thought of “Rock of Ages” as the title of a hymn and scribbled down the initial lyrics on a playing card. |
| Whether the story is altogether authentic or not, the truth of the hymn he wrote still stands, and will stand forever: |
| Rock of Ages! cleft for sin, Grace hath hid us safe within! Where the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Are of sin the double cure; Cleansing from its guilt and power. |
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