they learn that believing in this form of church government is a sign of being born of God and that earnest love for this discipline is the surest way to distinguish God’s people from all others. This has caused them to use terms that sharply distinguish between themselves and the rest of the world: they call themselves ‘the brethren’, ‘the godly’, and so forth, while the rest are termed ‘world-lings’, ‘time-servers’, ‘pleasers of men, not of God’, and so forth.
