This chapter illuminates Swift’s relationship with the Church of England through the lens of suffering. Swift’s thinking, feeling, and writing on the church must be understood as the product not just of a wayfaring and warfaring Christian, but of a suffering Church of England man. He was an apologist for a personalised distillation of an English Arminian tradition that had been denied the opportunity to live out the ‘orthodoxy’ of 1660–62. His high churchmanship was a symptom of both the unreconcilable tensions within the church and a belief that such tensions must be reconciled by and to high-church principles. The chapter concludes with three religio-polemical vignettes that provide additional context for historicising Swift’s writings.