'Having,’ says Calamy, 'quitted Andover some time after the recalling of Charles's Indulgence, he came to London with a design to act chiefly as a physician'.
[1] On 30 September 1687 he was induced to accept the pastorate of an independent meeting-house in Bury Street, St. Mary Axe, over which he presided for fourteen years.
Chauncy, although a learned man, was not a popular preacher, and being somewhat bigoted, he so tormented his hearers with incessant declamations on church government 'that they left him'.
He afterwards became divinity tutor to the newly founded Dissenting Academy in London, an office which he held until his death.
Alexander Comrie (1706–1774) translated a work of Chauncy The Doctrine, which is According to Godliness in Dutch and gave it the following title De Leer der Waarheid, die naar de godzaligheid is (1757)[3] Comrie agreed with this work, but strongly edited the text according to his own theological views.