 In his religious views he was strongly opposed to Calvinism, and did not scruple to express freely his dislike of passages in the Articles and Homilies which appeared to favour those tenets.He fully shared in the suspicion which in that age of formality attached to the term "enthusiasm," which he vehemently denounced, while he was equally ardent in defence of what he styled "the decent services and rational doctrines of the church of England.