The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.
Interpretation
The New Testament is accessible and authoritative, allowing even those who are not learned to understand essential truths about salvation.
John Wycliffe emphasizes the importance of the New Testament as a guiding text that is both authoritative and comprehensible, suggesting that its teachings on salvation are clear enough for everyone, regardless of their intellectual capacity. Wycliffe advocates for the idea that divine truths should not be limited to the educated elite, but are available to all who seek them, fostering a more personal and direct relationship with the scriptures.
In practice
During a church sermon to illustrate the accessibility of biblical teachings.
We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere - any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.
I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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