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E. D. Evans

Lincoln.

AMBROSE BONWICKE.

Cambridge:

PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR BY J. PALMER.

LIFE

OF

AMBROSE BONWICKE

BY HIS FATHER.

EDITED BY

JOHN E. B. MAYOR, M.A.

FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLege,

CAMBRIDGE.

CAMBRIDGE:

DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.;

LONDON: BELL AND DALDY.

1870.

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Now, if this wisdome onely can be found
By seeking God, euen in the Faith he giues;
If earth, heauen, sea, starres, creatures be the bound,
Wherein reueal'd his power and wisdome liues;
If true obedience be the way to this,

And onely who growes better, wiser is;

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Then let not curious, silly Flesh conceive

It selfe more rich or happy when it knowes

These words of Art, which men (as shells) must cleaue,

Before the lifes true wisdome they disclose;

Nor when they know to teach, they know not what,

But when their doings men may wonder at.

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For onely that man vnderstands indeed

And well remembers, which he well can doe,
The Laws liue, onely where the Law doth breed
Obedience to the workes it bindes vs to:
And as the life of Wisdome hath exprest,
If this you know, then do it, and be blest.

LORD BROOKE, Of Humane Learning.

TO THE

MASTER, FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE

I DEDICATE

THIS VIEW OF THE NONJURORS' HOME

AS IT APPEARED ON THE EVE

OF THE

LAST CAMBRIDGE PERSECUTION.

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