"I believe that the knowledge of our acceptance with God is to be constantly urged as one of the greatest motives to live a strict life, and to abstain from all appearance of evil, seeing the Holy Ghost, whose testimony alone can satisfy the conscience will never dwell with the slothful or lukewarm, much less with presumptuous offenders.Scripturally to state, and firmly maintain by sound argument the knowledge of salvation is, I believe a most useful way of preaching - guarding against hypocrites, who will sometimes speak swelling words about these matters, though themselves the servants of corruption, and conscious of the lie they tell in speaking of their joy in the Lord.I judge that one of the great reason of the worldliness prevailing among orthodox dissenters is their teachers not pressing this point, and that amidst very much error, one great cause of Wesley's success, some years ago, was his urging Christians not to rest without joy in God from receiving the atonement."Henry Venn, Christian Leaders of the 18th century, p. 293