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.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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