...as the waves of the sea," Isa. xlviii. 17. Whereunto this also in the same prophet may be joined ; " I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts, a people that provoketh me to anger...

...it, upon the hardness of the heart, Rom. ii. 5; and a rebellious walking after our own thoughts. " I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts," Isa. Ixv. 2. We are impotent and...

...hath made Herself ready. 20. That the Jews would fasten Christ to the Cross. Is.56,2. In Isaiah, / have spread out My hands" all the day unto a rebellious people, and that contradicteth Me, which walketh in ways that are not good, but after their own wickedness....

...my name. I g^dly received the offer of salvation, . 1,1 i 11 and now reioice in the strength of it have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not eood, after their own . „ , ,, , , i » ii God specially commanded...

...them that sought me not: I said, Behold me! Behold me! unto a nation that was not called by my name. I have spread out my hands all the day, unto a rebellious people," &c. This is partly in the present and partly in the past tenses; as if some of the particulars of it,...

...where, by the assumption of human affections, God condescends beneath his own majesty ? He says, " I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people ; " (b) early and late endeavouring to bring them to himself. If they are determined to accommodate...

...them that sought me not: I said, Behold me! Behold me! unto a nation that was not called by my name. I have spread out my hands all the day, unto a rebellious people," &c. This is partly in the present and partly in the past tenses; as if some of the particulars of it,...

...by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, interprets this of the Gentiles, while he says unto Israel, " I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people." * These promises are clear and decisive to us Gentiles ; but to a Jew, whose eye was dazzled with the...

...it cannot saVe?" (Is. lix. 1-4.) That the Jews would fasten him to the cross from these passages : " I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people," (Is. Ixv. 2.) " Thy life shall hang in doubt before thine eyes, and thou shalt fear day and night,...

...find pleasure, and exact all your labours ; behold, ye fast for strife, &c. — Isa. Iviii. 1, &c. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, &c. that provoketh me to anger continually to my face, &c. which say, Stand by thyself, come not near...