. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . a Comprehension Bill, designed to allow such latitude of sub-scription and observance as to bring many Nonconformists withinthe fold of the Church. But this Bill was successfully wreckedby the Commons, who referred it to Convocation ; and Con-vocation refused to yield an incii in spite of Tillotsons strenuous. JOHN TILLOTSON, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERUrRYFrom the portrait by Mary Bcale in the National Portrait Gallery Face p, 2\i JOHN TILLOTSON 243 advocacy. The new King on his arrival in London had suspendedSancroft from the Archbisliopr
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . a Comprehension Bill, designed to allow such latitude of sub-scription and observance as to bring many Nonconformists withinthe fold of the Church. But this Bill was successfully wreckedby the Commons, who referred it to Convocation ; and Con-vocation refused to yield an incii in spite of Tillotsons strenuous. JOHN TILLOTSON, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERUrRYFrom the portrait by Mary Bcale in the National Portrait Gallery Face p, 2\i JOHN TILLOTSON 243 advocacy. The new King on his arrival in London had suspendedSancroft from the Archbisliopric of Canterbur^f, and it was hisintention that Tillotson should succeed him, but the latter wasreluctant and pleaded for delay. He was finally consecrated onMay 31, 1691. His short primacy was only marked by his warmfriendship for Queen Marj, who took his advice as to all the ecclesi-astical patronage of the Crown, and by the publication of his fourlectures on Socinianism, which evoked a bitter attack from Nye onaccount of their moderate tone. On November 18, 1694, the Arch-bishop was stricken by paralysis in Whitehall Chapel, and died fourdays later. His life and character present an agreeable contrast to those ofmost divines of his age, and he may be called the Ken of the LowChurch party. Tillotson was sincerely religious, but his fair andtemperate mind was n
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