Education
He graduated Bachelor of Arts from Pembroke College, Oxford in 1641, and Master of Arts He studied in Oxford during the royalist occupation there.
He graduated Bachelor of Arts from Pembroke College, Oxford in 1641, and Master of Arts He studied in Oxford during the royalist occupation there.
In 1647. His views of the Interregnum period were Erastian. He was re-ordained by William Piers, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1661. He shortly changed his mind, however, and lost his living in 1662 for nonconformism.
He set up a church in Duke"s Place, London, and afterwards in Petticoat Lane, Whitechapel.
With the congregationalist Stephen Lobb he wrote two works against Edward Stillingfleet"s Mischief of Separation. His A Case of Conscience (1669) argued that in matter of religion the magistrate should not constrain people against the requirements of their conscience.
He defended with Thomas Blake free admission to communion, in a controversy that opposed him to Roger Drake. Humfrey defended his action, in The Question of Re-Ordination(1661).