His friend, Dr. Edward Reynolds, who had become dean of Christ Church, admitted him as a senior student there and he frequently preached at St. Mary's.
In an assize sermon preached in 1654 he denounced the people of Reading for their support of extravagant religious views, and was called before the grand jury to explain his conduct.
On 30 March 1670 he was chosen to be minister of Bridewell, London, but resigned the post on becoming vicar of St. Mary, Aldermanbury on 29 December.
Failing health compelled him to remove to the rectory of Old Swinford, Worcestershire, which was conferred on him by Thomas Foley on 22 May 1676.
They include sermons on the king's return, 1660; on the burial of Elizabeth, wife of Sir James Langham, 1665; on the Duke of York's victory over the Dutch, 1665.
A Discourse concerning God's Judgments, London, 1678, was prepared as a preface to James Illingworth's account of "a man" [John Duncalf] "whose hands and legs rotted off in the parish of King's Swynford in Staffordshire, where he died 21 June 1677.'"
Edward Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester, wrote a preface for "the substance of two sermons preached by Ford at the performance of publick penance by certain criminals on the Lord's Day, usually called Midlent Sunday, 1696, in the parish church of Old Swinford", London, 1697.
A piece of Latin verse by Ford, entitled Piscatro, and dedicated by him to Gilbert Sheldon, was first published in Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta, vol.