SOURCE: Smeeton, Donald Dean. “The Wycliffite Choice: Man's Law or God's.” In William Tyndale and the Law: Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies Vol. 25, edited by John A. R. Dick and Anne Richardson, pp. 31-40. Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1994.

In the following essay originally read at a conference in 1991, Smeeton argues that “Tyndale's concept of law appears compatible with the Wycliffite tradition that makes the love of law—God's law—central to spirituality as well as to salvation.”

In response to Thomas More's assertion that acts of almsgiving contribute to one's righteousness and eternal bliss, William Tyndale demanded that More consider the giver's motive:

And so is it of the purpose to do them: one's purpose is good, and another's evil; so that we must be good ere a good purpose come. Now then, to love the law of God, and to consent thereto, and to have...