"...Love in heaven is always mutual. It is always [reciprocated in ways] that are proportion[ate].... No inhabitants of that blessed world will ever be grieved with the thought that they are slighted by those that they love, or that their love is not fully and fondly returned.... [Those in heaven] will not doubt the love of each other. They shall have no fear that the declarations and professions of love are hypocritical; but shall be perfectly satisfied of the sincerity and strength of each other’s affection, as much as if there were a window in every [heart], so that everything ... could be seen. There shall be no such thing as flattery or [deceit] in heaven, but there perfect sincerity shall reign through all and in all. Every one will be just what he seems to be, and will really have all the love that he seems to have. It will not be as in this world, where comparatively few things are what they seem to be, and where professions are often made lightly and without meaning; but there every expression of love shall come from the bottom of the heart, and all that is professed shall be really and truly felt.
The saints ... shall have no suspicion that the love which others have felt toward them is [diminished], or in any degree withdrawn from them for the sake of some rival, or by reason of anything in themselves which they suspect is disagreeable to others, or through any [faithlessness] in their own hearts or the hearts of others.... There shall be no such thing as [fickleness] and unfaithfulness in heaven, to [assault] and disturb the friendship of that blessed society. The saints shall have no fear that the love of God will ever [diminish] towards them, or that Christ will not continue always to love them with unabated tenderness and affection....
As the saints will love God with an inconceivable [passion], and to the utmost of their capacity, so they will know that he has loved them from all eternity, and still loves them, and will continue to love them forever.... And with the same [zeal] and fervency will the saints love the Lord Jesus Christ; and their love will be accepted; and they shall know that he has loved them with a faithful, [yes], even with a dying love. They shall then be more [aware] than now they are, what great love it manifested in Christ that he should lay down his life for them; and then will Christ [show them] the great fountain of love in his heart for them, beyond all that they ever saw before....
And they shall know that they themselves shall ever live to love God, and love the saints, and to enjoy their love in all its fullness and sweetness forever. They shall ... [not] fear ... any end to this happiness, or of any [fading] from its fullness and blessedness, or that they shall ever be weary of its exercises and expressions, ...or that [their loved ones] shall ever grow old or disagreeable, so that their love shall at last die away.... [All] shall enjoy each other ... without any sickness, or grief, or persecution, or sorrow, or any enemy to [abuse] them, or any busybody to create jealousy or misunderstanding, or mar the perfect, and holy, and blessed peace that reigns in heaven!
And all this in the garden of God — in the paradise of love, where everything is filled with love, and everything conspires to promote and kindle it, and keep up its flame, and nothing ever interrupts it, but everything has been fitted by an all-wise God for its full enjoyment under the greatest advantages forever! And all, too, where the beauty of the [loved ones] shall never fade, and love shall never grow weary nor decay, but the soul shall more and more rejoice in love forever!
Oh! what tranquility will there be in such a world as this! And who can express the fullness and blessedness of this peace! What a calm is this! How sweet, and holy, and joyous! What a haven of rest to enter, after having passed through the storms and tempests of this world, in which pride, and selfishness, and envy, and malice, and scorn, and contempt, and contention, and vice, are as waves of a restless ocean, always rolling, and often dashed about in violence and fury! What a Canaan of rest to come to, after going through this waste and howling wilderness, full of snares, and pitfalls, and poisonous serpents, where no rest could be found!"