His system of theology agreed with that of the Puritans.

At the same time, he regarded episcopacy not indeed as a divine institution, but as a perfectly lawful and an eminently useful form of church government.

Questions respecting postures, robes, festivals and liturgies, he considered as of no vital importance.

A simple worship, such as that to which he had been early accustomed, would have been most to his personal taste.

But he was prepared to conform to any ritual which might be acceptable to the nation, and insisted only that he should not be required to persecute his brother Protestants whose consciences did not permit them to follow his example.
Two years earlier he would have been pronounced by numerous bigots on both sides a mere Laodicean, neither cold nor hot, and fit only to be spewed out.