“ Soon after the Restoration he was presented by Juxon, bishop of London, to the rectory of St Christopher-le-Stocks; and in 1660 he was created doctor of divinity at Cambridge, appointed a royal chaplain, prebendary of Ely, archdeacon of Surrey, and master of Jesus College, Cambridge. ”

“ From Eton he passed to Queen’s College, Cambridge, and was elected a scholar of King’s in April 1632, and a fellow in 1634. On taking orders in 1639 he was collated to the Salisbury prebend of Nether-Avon. In 1640 he was appointed chaplain to the lord-keeper Finch, by whom he was presented to the living of Thorington in Suffolk In the Civil War he acted as chaplain to George Goring’s forces in the west. In 1654 he was made weekly preacher at St Clement’s, Eastcheap, in London. ”

“ In 1659 he published in London his celebrated Exposition of the Creed, dedicated to his parishioners of St Clement’s, Eastcheap, to whom the substance of the work had been preached several years before. ”