The restoration of Charles II.

gave him rest and preferment: he was made Bishop of Down and Connor.

Taylor is now principally known for his learned, quaint, and eloquent discourses, which are still read.

A man of liberal feelings and opinions, he wrote on "The liberty of prophesying, showing the unreasonableness of prescribing to other men's faith, and the iniquity of persecuting different opinions:" the title itself being a very liberal discourse.

He upholds the Ritual in _An Apology for fixed and set Forms of Worship_.