[1] In his funeral sermon by John Guyse (1730) he was said to have made "thankful acknowledgments" for godly parents' and a religious education.'
In 1713 he was ordained as pastor to a congregation in Ropemaker's Alley, Moorfields, London, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Later Asty signed the declaration "on the doctrine of the blessed Trinity", as promulgated in the first article of the Church of England and in the answer to the fifth and sixth questions of the Assembly's catechism, agreed on at the Salters' Hall synod, 7 April 1719.
An admirer of the practical writings of John Owen, Asty died on 20 January 1730, and was buried in Bunhill Fields.
He published only a single sermon, on the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Fleetwood, preached at Stoke Newington on 23 June 1728 from Job ix.