C.S. Lewis, English Literature in the 16th Century, p. 187
"In theological language, no man can be saved by works. The whole purpose of the 'gospel', for Tyndale, is to deliver us from morality. Thus, paradoxically, the 'puritan' of modern imagination -- the cold, gloomy heart, doing as duty what happier and richer souls do without thinking of it -- is precisely the enemy which historical Protestantism arose and smote. What really matters is not to obey moral rules but to be a creature of a certain kind."
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