In February 1627 he preached a sermon in which he counselled his hearers not to seek carnal advice when in doubt; declared he would testify and teach no other doctrine though the day of judgment were at hand, and was committed to prison until he could find bonds for his appearance before the ecclesiastical courts.
After being frequently summoned before the courts, he received an order on 31 March 1628 to make a public recantation of his teaching in St. Andrew's Church, with which he complied on 6 April.
With other ministers in London, he encouraged a popular occupation of Parliament, to get reversed the measures taken to exclude eleven Presbyterian leaders.
It started a round of controversy, one participant being Katherine Chidley,[6] another William Walwyn with A Whisper In The Eare of Mr Thomas Edwards in 1646 using mild satire.
[7] Another work was Antapologia of 1644,[8] an attack on five members of the Westminster Assembly belonging to the Independents (William Bridge, Jeremiah Burroughs, Thomas Goodwin, Philip Nye, and Sidrach Simpson, collectively called the Five Dissenting Brethren).