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.
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life.
The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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