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Leighton on 1Peter 5.2. ‘Christ might have said to Peter, If you love me, fast, lie on the naked ground, be in watchings, defend the oppressed, be the father of the orphan, and the husband of the widow. But, passing by all these—what does he say? —Feed my sheep.’ Chrys. De Sacerd. Lib. ii. Compo Bowles. Lib. iii. 29. and Wits. de Vero Theologo. It was a high commendation of the late Dr. Gillies of Glasgow from a Deist—‘that he believed that he would be glad to carry all mankind in his bosom to the kingdom of heaven.’