Note (return) — Chapter III
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2nd. The second stage seems to have been a prayer to Almighty God, that He would suffer the supplications and intercessions19 of angels and saints to prevail with him, and bring down a blessing on their fellow-petitioners on earth; the idea having spread among enthusiastic worshippers, as I have already observed, that the spirits of the saints were suffered to be present around their tombs, and to join with the faithful in their addresses to the throne of grace.