Note 23 — THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
Reading edition
He was author of a curious sermon, printed in 1627, 4to. under the title of “Woe to Drunkards,” which was republished with king James’s Counterblast, and other philippics against tobacco and coffee; 4to. 1672. Upon the intrusion of the Book of Sports, Ward told his congregation that “the Church of England was ready to ring changes on religion, and that the Gospel stood on tip-toe ready to be gone.” For these words he was suspended.