The primitive Christians bearing their testimony for God in times of persecution [electronic resource] : being some sentences of Tertullian and others, taken out of a book, called, The mirrour of the martyrs: how that the crimes which of old were objected against the Christians, were, that they frequented seditious meetings and conventicles, and that they would rebel against their superiours: and the judges and justices grew incenst against them, and would not hear their just pleas; therefore Tertullian complained, saying:.