To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Along with Burnet Tillotson attended William Russell Lord Russell on the scaffold in 1683. In August of this year he was appointed by the chapter of his cathedral to exercise the archiepiscopal jurisdiction of the province of Canterbury during the suspension of Sancroft. In 1675 he edited John Wilkins's Principles of Natural Religion completing what was left unfiniJohn Tillotsond of it and in 1682 his Sermons.

John Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was an Archbishop of Canterbury (1691–1694).