He entered into controversies with his former friends the Jesuits, and in answer to one of their treatises entitled, _Mercy and Truth, or Charity maintained by the Roman Catholics_, he wrote his most famous work, _The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation_.

Chillingworth was a warm adherent of Charles I.; and was captured by the parliamentary forces in 1643.

He died the next year.

His double change of faith gave him the full range of the controversial field; and, in addition to this knowledge, the clearness of his language and the perspicuity of his logic gave great effect to his writings.

Tillotson calls him "the glory of this age and nation." TAYLOR .-- One of the greatest names in the annals of the English Church and of English literature is that of Jeremy Taylor.