a captaine] Their great passion putteth them upon a very mad motion; for who could conduct them back into Egypt? how could they be furnished with food in that desolate wildernesse? would God againe raine downe Manna for Rebels, or send Quailes to sustaine them? and by what meanes would they passe the Red Sea? would it againe stand on heapes that they might passe on dry ground? God would not surely worke any saving wonders for such desperate Apostates, who thus returning toward Egypt, deserved all the plagues of Egypt to way-lay them, and overwhelme them.