“ He possessed the special confidence of William and Mary, and was made clerk of the closet to the king in March 1689. It was chiefly through his advice that the king appointed an ecclesiastical commission for the reconciliation of the Dissenters. ”

“ Tillotson employed his controversial weapons with some skill against atheism and popery. In 1663 he published a characteristic sermon on “The Wisdom of being Religious,” and in 1666 replied to John Sergeant's Sure Footing in Christianity by a pamphlet on the “Rule of Faith.” The same year he received the degree of D.D. In 1670 he became prebendary and in 1672 dean of Canterbury. In 1675 he edited John Wilkins's Principles of Natural Religion, completing what was left unfinished of it, and in 1682 his Sermons. Along with Burnet, Tillotson attended Lord Russell on the scaffold in 1683. ”