Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy wounded side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure;
Save from wrath and make me pure.
Toplady though English, attended Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1762 but left it in 1775 to pastor a Calvinist church. He was converted (at 15) through a Methodist outreach. It is no secret that he later openly opposed to teachings of John Wesley but note the cry in the 1st stanza for the “double cure” and for purety.
Separate-Holy 