In this he considers the divine precepts to be contained within narrow limits, and that beyond this everything is a matter of dispute, so that we cannot unconditionally condemn the opinions of others.
His _Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life_, his _Rule and Exercises of Holy Living and of Holy Dying_, and his _Golden Grove_, are devotional works, well known to modern Christians of all denominations.

He has been praised alike by Roman Catholic divines and many Protestant Christians not of the Anglican Church.

There is in all his writings a splendor of imagery, combined with harmony of style, and wonderful variety, readiness, and accuracy of scholarship.

His quotations from the whole range of classic authors would furnish the Greek and Latin armory of any modern writer.

What Shakspeare is in the Drama, Spenser in the Allegory, and Milton in the religious Epic, Taylor may claim to be in the field of purely religious literature.