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.
We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.
When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.
When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.
[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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