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BEHOLD CHRIST'S GLORY!

" The word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth." —John 1:14 [KJV]  When the Lord gave Lamech a son, he called his name Noah, which signifies repose or consolation; and he said, "This same shall comfort us concerning the work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed" Genesis 5:29 . Noah was an eminent type of Jesus. Every sinner, who is poor, and made low (as Lamech signifies) has infinite reason so to conclude of Jesus, the Son of God. This same shall comfort us, though the work and toil of hands have been evil, and we are cursed for sin.   To be poor and made low in self, and to be struck with the display of the glory of the Lord Jesus, is the work of the Spirit, by the word of truth, and is peculiar to believers in all ages. "Abraham rejoiced to see Christ's day of incarnation; he saw it and was glad." And all the childre