For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.

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).