as would be so yoaked, against their light, and good counsel to the
contrary.

Atten. Alas! he deluded her with his tongue, and feigned
reformation.

Wise. Well, well; she should have gone more warily to work: {78d}
what if she had acquainted some of her best, most knowing, and
godly friends therewith? what if she had engaged a Godly Minister
or two to have talked with Mr. Badman? Also, what if she had laid
wait round about him, to espie if he was not otherwise behind her
back than he was before her face? And besides, I verily think
(since in the multitude of Counsellors there is safety) that if she
had acquainted the Congregation with it, and desired them to spend
some time in prayer to God about it, and if she must have had him,
to have received him as to his godliness, upon the Judgment of
others, rather than her own, (she knowing them to be Godly and
Judicious, and unbiassed men) she had had more peace all her life
after; than to trust to her own poor, raw, womanish Judgment, as
she did. Love is blind, and will see nothing amiss, where others
may see an hundred faults. Therefore I say, she should not have
trusted to her own thoughts in the matter of his Goodness.

As to his Person, there she was fittest to judge, because she was
to be the person pleased, but as to his Godliness, there the Word
was the fittest Judge, and they that could best understand it,
because God was therein to be pleased. I wish {79a} that all young
Maidens will take heed of being beguiled with flattering words,
with feigning and lying speeches, and take the best way to preserve
themselves from being bought and sold by wicked men, as she was;