 He was ordained in 1828, and began a close study of patristic theology.Eventually he published an emended and annotated text of Chrysostom's "Homiliae in Matthaeum" (Cambridge, 1839), and some years later he contributed to Edward Pusey's "Bibliotheca Patrum" (Oxford, 1838–1870), a similarly treated text of Chrysostom's homilies on Paul's epistles.In 1839 he had accepted the living of Great Saxham, in Suffolk, and in 1842 he was presented by his college to the rectory of Reepham in Norfolk.