"Second. The joy of heavenly love shall never be damped or interrupted by jealousy. Heavenly lovers will have no doubt of the love of each other. They shall have no fear that their professions and testimonies of love are hypocritical; they shall be perfectly satisfied of the sincerity and strength of each other's love, as much as if there were a window5 in all their breasts, that they could see each other's hearts. There shall be no such thing as flattery or dissimulation in heaven, but there perfect sincerity shall reign through all. Everyone will be perfectly sincere, having really all that love which they profess. All their expressions of love shall come from the bottom of their hearts. The saints shall know that God loves them, and they shall not doubt of the greatness of his love; and they shall have no doubt of the love of all their fellow heavenly inhabitants. And they shall not be jealous of the constancy of each other's love. They shall have no suspicion that their former love is abated, that they have withdrawn their love in any degree from them for the sake of any rival, or by reason of any thing in themselves which they suspect is disagreeable to them, or anything they have done which is disrelished, or through the inconstancy of their hearts. Nor will they in the least be afraid that their love towards them will ever be abated. There shall be no such thing as inconstancy and unfaithfulness in heaven to molest and disturb the friendship of that blessed society. The saints shall have no fear that the love of God will ever abate towards them, or that Christ will not continue always to love them with the same immutable tenderness. And they shall have no jealousy one of another, for they shall know that by divine grace the love of all the saints is also unchangeable. Third. They shall have nothing within themselves to clog them in the exercises and expressions of love. In this world they find much to hinder them. They have a great deal of dullness and heaviness. They carry about with them a heavy moulded body, a lump of flesh and blood which is not fitted to be an organ for a soul inflamed with high exercises of divine love, but is found a great clog to the soul, so that they cannot express their love to God as they would. They cannot be so active and lively in it as they desire. Fain would they fly, but they are held down, as with a dead weight at their feet. Fain would they be active as a flame of fire, but they find themselves, as it were, hampered or chained down, that they cannot do as their love inclines them. Love disposes them to praise, but their tongues are not obedient; they want words to express the ardor of their souls, and cannot order their speech by reason of darkness, Job 37:19. And oftentimes for want of expressions they are forced to content themselves with groans that cannot be uttered, Romans 8:26. B ut in heaven they shall have no such hindrance. They will have no dullness or unwieldiness, no corruption of heart to fight against divine love and hinder suitable expressions, no clog of a heavy lump of clay, or an unfit organ for an inward heavenly flame. They shall have no difficulty in expressing all their love. Their souls, which are like a flame of fire with love, shall not be like a fire pent up but shall be perfectly at liberty. The soul which is winged with love shall have no weight tied to the feet to hinder its flight. There shall be no want of strength or activity, nor any want of words to praise the object of their love. They shall find nothing to hinder them in praising or seeing God, just as their love inclines. Love naturally desires to express itself; and in heaven the love of the saints shall be at liberty to express itself as it desires, either towards God or one another. Fourth. In heaven love will be expressed with perfect decency and wisdom. Many in this world who are sincere in their hearts, and have indeed a principle of true love to God and their neighbor, yet have not discretion to guide them in the manner and circumstances of expressing it. Their speeches are good, but not suitably adapted to the time, or discreetly ordered in the circumstances of them. There are found in them those indiscretions which greatly obscure the loveliness of grace in the eyes of others who behold them. But in heaven the amiableness of their love shall not be obscured by any such means. There shall be no indecent or indiscreet actions or speeches, no selfish fondness, no needless officiousness, no such thing as affections clouding and darkening reason, or going before reason. But wisdom and discretion shall be as perfect in them as love,6 and every expression of love in them shall be ordered with the most amiable and perfect decency in all the circumstances of it." Jonathan Edwards