and went backward] Shem and Japht not willing to see their fathers shame, by their modesty condemne (as by a legall testimony of two witnesses) the impudence of Ham; here was some comfort to Noah at his awaking out of sleep, to see he had two good sonnes for one bad one, and in them we have an excellent Patterne of shamefastnesse and reverence in children towards their naturall parents, fit for imitation also towards parents spirituall, yea for brethren also when any such a one is overtaken with a fault, Galatians 6:1. yet in this there is a difference betwixt private and publike persons, those may conceale what these may not; and therefore it may be doubted whether Constantines resolution to cast his robe over an adulterous Bishop, if he tooke him in the evill act, as Theodoret writes of him, Eccles. Hist. Lib. 1. cap. 11. did not fail in justice aswell as abound in mercy.