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Daniel Dyke, Michael and the Dragon, or Christ Tempted and Satan Foiled, pp. 10-11:

A Double Comfort in Crosses

Here is double comfort then in our crosses.

1. On our part. That we have received of God's Grace which is more comfortable than the cross discomfortable, and that therefore we shall not be tempted above our strength.

2. On God's part. That He will be glorified in us against Satan, I Corinthians 10:10. The credit of our combating redounds to God, who, if He had not well taught us in the Fencing-school, would never have brought us into the field, lest we should shame him.
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Daniel Dyke, Michael and the Dragon, or Christ Tempted and Satan Foiled, pp. 117-118:

SO WONDERFUL IS GOD'S GOODNESS THAT IT EXTENDETH TO ALL HIS CREATURES

This shows the wonderful goodness of God, that will do good to all His creatures, even to the wicked His enemies, because they are His creatures: as Psalm 36, Thou Lord savest both man and beast; and Matthew 5, He causes it to rain and shine both upon the just and the unjust. Nay he will extraordinarily provide for them in their need, as Manna for the murmuring rebellious Israelites; for Core, Dathan and Abiram, as well as for Moses and Aaron. He extraordinarily provides for the young ravens crying for hunger, when forsaken of their dams [female parent], Psalm 147:9. And so for the birds, Matthew 6, wanting such means as men have to provide for themselves, so that seldom seen to fall down dead for want of food. Now men though wicked, are above beasts, and come nearer to God, and therefore God is said to be the Savior of all men, though specially of them that believe, I Timothy 4:10. An excellent example of God's extraordinary providence over the wicked in their great calamities, see in Hagar and her brat Ishmael, Genesis 21:15-17. Learn hence,

Use 1: Not to gather any necessary argument of God's favor from his providence in these outward things, for it is common with us to the wicked.

Use 2: To comfort ourselves in all our straits. Matthew 6:26, Are ye not much better then they? If God so provide for strangers, for the Devil's brats, what will He do then for his own children? If so for Ishmaels, what then for Isaacs? And if thus for our bodies, worm's meat and rottenness, what then for our immortal souls?

Thus much for the first temptation.
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Dyke's Michael and the Dragon is one of my favorite all time books.

Anyone who has not read it should buy it and read it each year. Its one of "those" kinds of books.
 
Daniel Dyke, Michael and the Dragon, or Christ Tempted and Satan Foiled, pp. 156-157:

Use 2: [re: The Angels Are Attendants to God's Servants] Comfort to us all in all our afflictions and dangers. We have the Angels' aid, as the Prophet Elisha against that bloody King, Jacob against the fear of Esau, Hezekiah against Sennacherib, and England against that invincible navy of the Spaniards in the year 88. What though the good Angels appear not ordinarily? No more do the evil ones, and yet thou doubtest not of the hurt done by them: why then doubtest thou of the help done by the other? Get thee those eyes, whereby thou mayest see as with Moses, the invisible God, so the invisible Angels. Pray, as Elisha for his servant, that thine eyes may be opened, and thou shalt see more with thee than against thee, II Kings 6:16, 17.
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