To be Assaulted by Satan is a Mark of Sonship

[GOD] respecteth not so much our actions as our affections; nor our works as our desires and endeavours; so that he who desires to be righteous, is righteous; he that would repent, doth repent… For the LORD accepteth the desire for the deed; and if there be a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that a man hath not, as it is 2. Cor. 8:12

[When] Satan (quietly) keeps the house, the things that he poseeseth are  in peace; but when a stronger than he cometh to dispossess him, he will never lose his possession without a fight.

[Let us] march forward, and shew a courageous heart and earnest desire to overcome, [and] surely Christ, our grand Captain will acknowledge us for his soldiers, and will give us our pay, even a crown of victory. Rather thereby is a soldier disgraced, if either he dare not march into the field, or being entered the battle doth shamefully flee away, or cowardly yield unto the enemy.

"If a man never enter the field to fight against Satan, or f at the first encounter, he yield himself prisoner… it is no marvel that he doth not rage in his conscience. But resiting Satan, Satan will fight back, and he must needs feel the conflict. While the prisoner lieth in the dungeon, loaded with bolts and tied in chains, the keeper sleepeth securely, …but if, his bolts being filed off and his chains loosed, he have escaped out of pirson, then the jailer beginneth to bustle and pursueth him speedily with hue and cry.
—All 3 quotes are by John Downame The last three from "Christan Warfare" and the first one from "Garden of Spiritual flowers"