 It is said that when St. Patrick landed near Wicklow to convert the Irish in 433, the pagan inhabitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavoured to explain God to them as the Trinity in Unity, but they could not understand him,...  Knowledge for the People ... - Page 11by John Timbs - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...St. Patrick, therefore, plucked a trefoil from the ground, and expostulated with the Hibernians : ' Is it not as possible for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as for these three leaves, to grow upon one stalk?' The Irish were immediately convinced." If the weather be fine... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...inhabitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavoured to explain God to them ai the Trinity in Unity, but they could not understand...for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as for these leaves, to grow upon a single stalk," then the Irish were immediately convinced.* St. Patrick. The... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...inhabitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavoured to explain God to them as it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and...singa on yon Pomegranate tree : Believe me, love, it leaves, to grow upon a single stalk," then the Irish were im'iu ilu.li ly convinced.* Si. Patrick.... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 892 pages
...inhabitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavoured to explain God to them as the Trinity in Unity, but they could not understand...plucking a trefoil from the ground, he said, " Is it not ai possible for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as for these leaves, to grow upon a single stalk,"... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 878 pages
...inhabitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavoured to explain God to them as the Trinity in Unity, but they could not understand...for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as for these leaves, to grow upon a single stalk," then the Irish were immediately convinced.' St. gatrick. TKe... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1830 - 402 pages
...inhahitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavonred to explain God to them, as the Trinity in Unity, but they could not understand him ; till plucking a trefoil, or shamrog, from the ground, he said, " Is it not as possible for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 pages
...inhabitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavoured to explain God to them as the Trinity in Unity, but they could not understand...for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as for these leaves, to grow upon a single stalk," then the Irish were immediately convinced.* St. Patrick. The... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...inhabitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavoured to explain God to them as the Trinity in Unity, but they could not understand...for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as for these leaves, to grow upon a single stalk," then the Irish were immediately convinced.* St. Patrick. The... | |
 | Sketches, Richard A. Davenport - 1837 - 396 pages
...were unable to understand the doctrine of three Gods in one, he plucked a trefoil, and asked them, " Is it not as possible for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to grow upon one stalk, as it is for these leaves to do so ?" The argument was deemed conclusive by... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...inhabitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavoured to explain God to them as the Trinity in Unity, but they could not understand...for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as for these leaves, to grow upon a single stalk," then the Irish were immediately convinced.* St. Patrick. The... | |
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