A Name in Heaven the Truest Ground of Joy

by Matthew Mead

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Hardcover

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

Rev. Matthew Mead or Meade (c. 1630 – 1699) was an English Independent minister.

Reviews

[Timothy Denning · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book to help with an assurance of faith. Goes through in the first part a name written I heaven, this is all of grace he labours in a Christ exalting way in the reasons you will knowthis. The second part of the book is weaning your heart from the world. There must be space in your heart for the Lord, and you must not be full of the world. Challenging, yes. May the Lord help us.

[Michael Stilley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heart-searching and devotionally rich.

[Richard Duncan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid. It's amazing (and a bit of reading into the text?) what the great Puritan writers can glean from a verse or two! Mead does this with 2 sermons from Luke 10:20 and Psalm 131:1. In sermon one he teaches us that if we know that we are headed to heaven in the ups and downs of this life cannot disturb our true joy. In sermon to teaches us that we should have souls that are weaned from the world so that we can live in quiet trust. We must be especially careful when we receive good things from God. Sometimes God sometimes takes our comforts from us so that we might lean more deeply into him. It's a sad state when he leaves the comforts with us but then withdrawals himself. I read this book in Dallas, Texas when we visited for a family wedding. We found ourselves in the Highland Park area which is where a lot of people live who have made much money from the oil industry. I wrote, "Here I am in Dallas, surrounded by oil money. But my inheritance is worth more than all these riches. O help me, Lord, focus on the inheritance I have in Christ!" This is the source of true joy. Mead wants us to understand that God's electing love is the source of great joy. God does not elect us because we believe. We believe because he elects us. And if we are the elect, then we have reason to rejoice. "All the objects of joy which are scattered among the creatures, are everlastingly heaped up in heaven: so that say what it is you delight and joy in, and I will show it you there" (p. 71). If you long for wealth, there are unsearchable riches in heaven. If you long for honor and dignity, in heaven the glory of the great God himself shall be put upon you. If you long for pleasures, in heaven there are rivers of pleasures. If you long for feasting, in heaven there will be plenty and variety. If you delight in music, then in heaven the angels and saints singing eternal hallelujahs. If you delight in stately and magnificent structures, then in heaven is a house not made with hands. "Thus you see heaven as the comprehension of all good, the abstract of all felicity" (p. 73). "Whatever ye enjoy in the world, yet let your joy be in God. Have ye riches, honors, pleasures, children, health, beauty, etc. 'not withstanding, in this rejoice not; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven'" (p. 74).