The Golden Scepter Held Forth to the Humble

Three Puritan treatises grounded in 2 Chronicles 7:14, exploring humility, divine mercy, and the soul's covenant with God. Preston argues that without genuine humiliation there is no mercy — tracing how God afflicts his people in love, the church's dignified union with Christ, and the believer's duty of glad submission. Rich in pastoral application, the work moves from searching diagnoses of pride and cold religion to warm exhortations toward repentance, seeking God's face, and turning from sin as the only path to healing.