SATAN setteth his temptations to your natural and acquired parts. That if you are weak, he may either discourage you; or, which is more usual and dangerous, make you think better of them than they are, and to think you know much, when it is next to nothing; and to make you wise in your own eyes, and easily to receive an error, and then be confident in it: not to discern between things that differ, but to be deceived into false zeal, and false ways, by the specious pretence and show of truth; and then to be zealous for the deceiving of others. Also that you may be a dishonour to truth and godliness, by your weakness and ill management of good causes; and may give them away through your unskilfulness to the adversary. If you are of stronger wits and parts, the tempter will draw you to despise the weak, to take gifts for special grace; or, to undervalue holiness and humility, and overvalue learning and acuteness: he will tempt you, dangerously, to loathe the simplicity of Christianity and of the Scriptures as to style and method; and to be offended at the cross of Christ. So that such persons are in greater danger of infidelity, heresy, pride, and insolent domineering over the flock of Christ, than common Christians that have lower parts.—Richard Baxter.