Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 65:2

2 I have spread out my hands all the day long to a rebellious people , which walketh in a way that was not good after their own thoughts :

Applied to the Jews, Rom. 10. 21. I have stretched out my hands, that is, I have used all probable means to reduce them, I have stretched out the hands of a passionate Orator to persuade them, of a tender Mother to protect and defend them, of a liberal Benefactor to load them with my Benefits; this I have done continually in the whole course of my Providence with them, yet

They are a rebellious people; Paul expoundeth it by [non-Latin text not transcribed], a People not persuaded, not believing, but contradicting the will of God.

That walketh in a way that is not good, that term, is not good, often signifies what is very bad, see 1 Sam. 2. 24. Prov. 28. 21. & 24. 23. Psal. 36. 5. Though all sins be not equal, yet what is not good is bad.

After their own thoughts. What is here called after their own thoughts, is elsewhere called a walking after the imaginations of their hearts, an ordinary Phrase, by which sin (especially sins in the matter of the Worship of God) are expressed eight times, in the Prophet Ieremiah sinning is thus expressed, Ier. 3. 17. & 7. 24. & 9. 14. & 11. 8. & 13. 10. & 16. 12. & 18. 12. & 23. 17. so also Deut. 29. 19. Errours in matter of Worship are ordinarily thus expressed, certainly to let us know, that all Worship must be according to Gods revealed Will, and of such errours this Text seemeth by what followeth, to speak, though indeed, the reason of all sin is mens fondness of their own imaginations in opposition to Gods revealed Will, whence it is that self-denial is made the Law of a Discipleship to Christ.