316 Walking with Wife Men, &c, S E R M. and unconftant, yielding no folid and abid- XII. ing pleafure. Friendfhip founded in wif dom, and improved to the purpofes of vir- tue, carrieth in it the belt fentiments and affeEtions, and the trueft and higheft plea_ Lures that the human nature is capable of and which will Taft to the utmoft duration of our beings, even to perpetuity, If then we be fenfible of our own frailty, and our danger of declining from the right way, fhould we not avoid the intimacies which may betray our integrity, and expofe us to many temptations ; and, on the contrary, chufe thofe which may be the means of correcting bad difpofitions, and flrengthen- ing good ones, and by which we may rea- fonably hope for daily good inflruélions, and an example to be fet before us, which thall tend to our furtherance in every chri- ftian virtue ? 8 E R-
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