Initially a Dissenting minister, he later was an Anglican, Boyle Lecturer, and President of Sion College.
He was educated at an academy kept by Samuel Benion at Shrewsbury, and on 19 December 1716 was made a Dissenting minister at the Old Jewry Meeting-house.
He also held the living of Northwald, near Epping, was a minor canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, a prebendary from 1736, and a chaplain to George II.
He was also the author of Remarks on a Book lately published entitled "A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," 1735.
He published a pamphlet about a definitive case of heresy in the West Country, 1719; that debate widened the split between Presbyterians and Independents.