Among the symbols employed by the primitive Christians, that of the fish seems to have ranked first in importance.

Sean Fitzpatrick's Ichthys Follow-Up The Catholic Encyclopedia says: Among the symbols employed by the primitive Christians, that of the fish ranks probably first in importance.

Influenced perhaps by a representation over the altar of the twelve Apostles, Segarelli allowed his beard and hair to grow, went around barefoot and wore only a white tunic in imitation of the primitive Christians.

Correspondences were not disclosed to the primitive early Christians because they were too simple to understand them.

See also, for the hatred of the primitive Christians to love and even marriage, page 269.

"Where now is there a man who, like the primitive Christians, is traveling to heaven barefooted and clad in coarse raiment?"

No poor woman has ever wished more than I that Eve had not fallen, so that (as the primitive Christians believed) some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled Paradise.

The primitive Christians did not invent charitic religion, by any means; nor did it cease with them.

Ichnographia, or a Model of the Primitive Congregational Way, apparently an attempt to recover the order of divine service amongst the primitive Christians for imitation by the moderns, published in London, 1647, 4to.

The Pauline and Johannine writings...imply that the historical figure of Jesus, the life which he lived in the flesh, is of little importance in comparison with the experience of the 'Christ-Spirit' possessed by primitive Christians.