 In December 1691 he witnessed the funeral of Richard Baxter, and long afterwards told Samuel Palmer, of the "Nonconformist's Memorial", that the coaches reached from Merchant Taylors' Hall (whence the body was carried) to Christ Church, Newgate, the place of burial.Next year he became tutor and chaplain in the family of Sir Thomas Roberts, at Glassenbury, near Cranbrook, Kent.In 1699 Earle became assistant to Thomas Reynolds at the Weighhouse presbyterian chapel, Eastcheap, and soon afterwards became one of the evening lecturers at Lime Street.