[3] He became chaplain to Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, who presented him in 1626 to the rectory of Moreton, near Ongar, Essex.
Wood says he was "well read in the fathers and schoolmen, was a good disputant and preacher, a zealous Calvinist in the beginning, but a greater Arminian afterwards".
[3][6] His Gods Love to Mankind; manifested by disproving his absolute Decree for their Damnation provoked several answers.
John Davenant[7] was, according to Lee Gatiss, influential in replying to the Arminian positions of Hoard and Henry Mason.
[11] A posthumous work of William Twisse, with Henry Jeanes and John Goodwin, also replied explicitly.