The facility and assiduity with which he wrote are sufficiently proved by the bulk and the dates of his works.

There were indeed among the clergy men of brighter genius and men of wider attainments: but during a long period there was none who more completely represented the order, none who, on all subjects, spoke more precisely the sense of the Anglican priesthood, without any taint of Latitudinarianism, of Puritanism, or of Popery.

He had, in the days of the Exclusion Bill, when the power of the dissenters was very great in Parliament and in the country, written strongly against the sin of nonconformity.

When the Rye House Plot was detected, he had zealously defended by tongue and pen the doctrine of nonresistance.

His services to the cause of episcopacy and monarchy were so highly valued that he was made master of the Temple.