 When the Presbyterian form of church government was established in Lancashire, he often acted as moderator of the "classis", and attended the provincial assembly, and had ruling elders in his own congregation.His presbyterianism was moderate, and he incurred some blame for the breadth of his views as to church discipline.Angier signed the document known as the 'Harmonious Consent', issued in 1648, in which the Presbyterian ministers denounced the notion of 'an universal toleration of all the pernicious errors, blasphemous and heretical doctrines broached in these times.'