In this juncture who should come by but young _Canaan_, say some; or as others think, this young Fellow first attack'd him by way of Kindness and pretended Affection; prompted his Grandfather to drink, on Pretence of the Wine being good for him, and proper for the Support of his old Age, and subtilly set upon him, drinking also with him, and so (his Head being too strong for the old Man's) drank him down, and then, _Devil_ like, triumph'd over him; boasted of his Conquest, insulted the Body as it were dead, uncovered him on purpose to expose him, and leaving him in that indecent Posture, went and made Sport with it to his Father _Ham_, who in that Part, wicked like himself, did the same to his Brethren _Japhet_ and _Shem_; but they like modest and good Men, far from carrying on the wicked Insult on their Parent, went and cover'd him, as the Scripture expresses it, and as may be supposed inform'd him how he had been abus'd, and by whom. Why else should _Noah_, when he came to himself, shew his Resentment so much against _Canaan_ his Grandson, rather than against _Ham_ his Father, and who 'tis supposed in the Story the guilt chiefly lay upon? we see the Curse is (as it were) laid wholly upon _Canaan_ the Grandson, and not a Word of the Father is mention'd, Gen. ix. 25, 26, 27, _Cursed be_ Canaan, _a Servant of Servants shall he be_, &c. That _Ham_ was Guilty, that's certain from the History of Fact, but I cannot but suppose his Grandson was the Occasion of it; and in this Case the Devil seems to have made _Canaan_ the Instrument or Tool to delude _Noah_, and draw him in to Drunkenness, as he made the Serpent the Tool to beguile _Eve_, and draw her into Disobedience. Possibly _Canaan_ might do it without Design at first, but might be brought in to ridicule and make a Jest of the old Patriarch afterward, as is too frequent since in the Practice of our Days; but I rather believe he did it really with a wicked Design, and on Purpose to expose and insult his Reverend old Parent; and this seems more likely too, because of the great Bitterness with which _Noah_ resented it, after he came to be inform'd of it.