[1] Adams was admitted to Brasenose College, Oxford, on 24 March 1646, where he became the friend of John Howe,[2] became fellow, and took his master's degree in 1651.
[2] Being unable to comply with the terms of ministerial conformity settled on the restoration of Charles II, he resigned the living, but continued to reside in London, where, when the times allowed of non-conforming services being publicly conducted, he became pastor of a small congregation of Presbyterian dissenters, whose place of worship was situated in Parish-street, in the Borough.
[3] He was the author of the exposition of the Epistles to the Philippians and Colossians in the supplement to Matthew Poole's Annotations, and of various printed sermons.
He joined Edward Veal, another non-conforming minister, in writing prefaces to several of the treatises of Stephen Charnock.
[1] He published also two works of his brother Thomas Adams; namely, Protestant Union, and The Main Principles of the Christian Religion, 8vo.