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A77813	A few sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul. Or, An exposition of those words in the sixteenth of Luke, concerning the rich man and the beggar : wherein is discovered the lamentable state of the damned : their cries, their desires in their distresses, with the determination of God upon them. A good warning word to sinners, both old and young, to take into consideration betimes, and to seek by faith in Jesus Christ to avoid, lest they come into the same place of torment. Also a brief discourse touching the profitableness of the Scriptures for our instruction in the way of righteousness, according to the tendancy of the said parable. / By that poor and contemptible servant of Jesus Christ, John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5516; Thomason E1927_2; ESTC R210338	119,232	307

sight of the Lord the death of his Saints is when he saith they are carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome Thus many times the Lord adorneth the death and departure of his Saints to hold forth unto after generations how excellent they are in his eyes It is said of Enoch that God took him of Abraham that he died in a good old age of Moses that the Lord buried him of Elijah that he was taken up into heaven that the Saints sleep in Jesus that they die in the Lord that they rest from their labour that their works follow them that they are under the Altar that they are with Christ that they are in light that they are to come with the Lord Jesus to judge the world All which sayings signifie thus much That to die ● Saint is very great honour and dignity But the ungodly are not so The rich or ungodly die and are buried he is carried from his dwelling to the grave and there he is buried hid in the dust and his body doth not so fast molder and come to nought there but his name doth stink as fast in the world as saith the holy Scripture The name of the wicked shall rot And indeed the names of the godly are not in so much honour after their departure but the wicked and their names do as much rot What a dishonour to posterity was the death of Balaam Agag Achitophel Haman Judas Herod with the rest of their companions So that though the wicked have their names written in the earth and they do perish and rot yet the name of the Saints do cast forth a dainty savour to following generations and that the Lord Jesus doth signifie where he saith The godly are carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome And that the wicked are nothing worth where he saith The ungodly die and are buried Verse 23. And in hell he lift up his ●●es being in torment and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosome THe former verse speaks onely of the departure of the ungodly out of this life together with the glorious conduct that the godly have into the kingdome of their Father Now our Lord doth shew in this verse partly what doth and shall befall to the reprobate after this life is ended where he saith And in hell he lift up his eyes That is the ungodly after they depart this life do lift up their eyes in hell From these words may be observed these things 1. That there is an hell for souls to be tormented in when this life is ended Mark after he was dead and buried In hell he lift up his eyes 2. That all that are ungodly and do live and die in their sins so soon as ever they die they go into hell he died and was buried And in hell he lift up his eyes 3. That some are so fast asleep and secure in their sins that they scarce know well where they are till they come into hell and that I gather from these words In hell he lift up his eyes He was asleep before but hell makes him lift up his eyes As I said before it is evident that there is an hell for souls yea and bodies too to be tormented in after they depart this life as is clear First because the Lord Jesus Christ that cannot lie did say that after the sinner was dead and buried In hell he lift up his eyes Now if it be objected that hell is here meant the grave that I plainly deny First because there the body is not sensible of torment or ease but in that hell into which the spirits of the damned depart they are sensible of torment and would be very willingly freed from it to enjoy ease which they are sensible of the want of as is clearly discovered in this Parable Send Lazarus that he may dip c. 2. It is not meant the grave but some other place because the bodies so long as they lie there are not capable of lifting up their eyes to set the glorious condition of the children of God as the souls of the damned do In hell he lift up his eyes 3. It cannot be the grave for then it must follow that the soul was buried there with the body which cannot stand with such a dead state as is here mentioned for he saith The rich man died that is his soul was separated from his body And in Hell he lift up his eyes If it be again objected that there is no hell but in this life that I do also deny as I said before after he was dead and buried In hell he lift up his eyes And let me tell thee O soul whoever thou art that if thou close not in savingly with the Lord Jesus Christ and lay hold on what he hath done and is doing in his own person for sinners thou wilt finde such an hell after this life is ended that thou wilt not get out of again for ever and ever And thou that art wanton and doest make but a mock at the servants of the Lord when they tell thee of the torments of hell thou wilt finde that when thou departest out of this life that hell even the hell which is after this life will meet thee in thy journey thither and will with its hellish crew give thee such a sad salutation that thou wilt not forget it to all eternity when that Scripture comes to be fulfilled on thy soul in Isa 14.9 where it is said Hell from beneath it moved for thee to meet thee at thy comming it stirreth up the dead for thee even all the chief ones of the earth it hath raised from their thrones all the kings of the nations All they that is that are in hell shall say Art thou become weak as we art thou become like unto us O sometimes when I have had but thoughts of going to hell and considered the everlastingness of their ruine that fall in thither it hath stirred me up rather to seek to the Lord Jesus Christ to deliver me from thence then to slight it and make a mock at it And in hell he lift up his eyes The second thing I told you was this That all the ungodly that live and die in their sins so soon as ever they depart this life do descend into hell This is also verified by the words in this parable where Christ saith He died and was buried and in hell he lift up his eyes As the tree falls so it shall lie whether it be to heaven or hell And as Christ said to the thief on the Cross This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Even so the devil in the like manner may say unto thy soul To morrow shalt thou be with me in hell See then what a miserable case he that dies in an unregenerate state is in he departs from a long sickness to a longer hell from the gripings of death to the everlasting torments of hell And in hell he lift up his eyes

them who are the excellent in the earth in whom his soul delights although he hath made them heirs of the Kingdom Jam. 2.5 Yet doth he bestow but a small portion of these worldly things upon them hereby declaring to all how little he sets by those things which most set so much by and to draw up our hearts mindes and affections to the things above yea His own Son that he appointed heir of all things Heb. 1.2 shall come forth neither of rich kindred nor attended with gallants nor yet accoutred with the worlds glory but in a low mean and abject condition at whose birth a manger received him and through his life sorrows wants and sufferings did attend and at the end a shameful death in the worlds esteem befals him and by all this he shews his contempt of the worldly mans darling Cast not away thy soul then O man in seeking after solacing thy self in and contenting thy self with this present world for though thou mayest make gold thy hope and put thy confidence in thy wealth yet when this thy hope shall fail and thy confidence slip from thee as sure it will ere long glad wouldest thou be of the least drop of the water of life and the least filing of that precious gold that thou art now called upon to drink of and to buy for thy self but alas they shall not be had then O then what profit will thy treasures of wickedness yield thee and whereto will thy thick clay that thou hast hoorded up and thy carnal pleasures which thou hast drunk down as the fish drinks down water whereto I say will they serve unless to weigh thee the deeper into hell and increase the fire when it shall be kindled upon thee Thirdly look upon thy loss too which is such that ten thousand worlds cannot repair thy soul thy body thy comforts thy hopes thy share in a crucified Jesus the crown of life and everlasting Communion with the Father Son and Spirit blessed Angels and glorified Saints and a soul-satisfying soul-saving Christ who came from the bosome of love and gave himself to open a way to everlasting glory by the sacrifice of himself to whom thou art called invited and perswaded to come whose heart is open arms spread and who hath room enough in his bosome to receive thee grace enough to pardon thee blood enough to justifie thee treasures enough to enrich thee pleasures enough to delight thee Psal 36.8 And glory enough to crown thee In whom it hath pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell Colos 1.19 to make them perfectly blessed that come to him so that there is no need to seek happiness among the creatures which most do and thereby lose true happiness and their souls too turn in hither and thou shalt eat of his bread and drink of the wine which he hath mingled Prov. 9.4 5. Wouldest thou fare deliciously every day and have thy soul delight it self in fatness Isa 55.2 Hearken diligently and come to the wedding the oxen and fatlings are killed and all things are ready Mat. 22.5 I tell thee whatsoever food thou feedest upon else will prove no better to thee then the Prodigals husks Luke 15.16 That will starve thee whilest thou feedest on them if thou drinkest of other wine it will prove as a cup of wine mixed with poison which though it be pleasant to the taste it will be the death of thy soul Wilt thou then lose this Christ this food this pleasure this heaven this happiness for a thing of nought Wilt thou drink out of a puddle a broken Cistern which leaks out the water and holds nothing but mud and refuse the fountain of living water which whosoever tastes of shall live for ever Fourthly beware of perswading thy self into a conceit of the poor mans end if thou livest the rich mans life and dyest his death It is strange to see how many run swiftly the very way to hell yet are full of confidence of going to heaven though Scripture every where shuts them out and Christ at last will certainly shut them out for ever hereafter living and dying in their present state let none therefore deceive you neither deceive your selves for none such can enter into the kingdom of heaven But for these things sake cometh the wrath of God on the children of disobedience 1 Cor. 6.9 Ephes 5.5 6. And how sad will thy disappointment be that goest on securely fearing nothing being fully yet falsely perswaded of eternal life at last and then drop down into the bottomless pit Like wicked Haman that dreamed of greater honour but behold a gallows or our mother Eve who conceited to be as God but became a cursed creature Though the devil may perswade thee thou mayest live as in hell here yet in heaven hereafter believe him not for he endeavours to keep thee in his snares that he may drag thee to hell with him and the better to effect his devilish design upon thee he will present and through his cursed subtlety knows how to do it thy sins and this world in as lovely and taking a guise as may be but will hide the evil consequences from thine eyes that thou mightest be inveigled by gazing on the one and not be afrighted by beholding the other his bait shall be pleasant but his hook hid like the strumpet in Proverbs 7. That intices the simple with fair words but conceals that the way to her house leads to the chambers of death nothing appears but a bed richly furnished and a promise of solacing him with loves but he that followeth after her goeth as an ox to the slaughter and as a fool to the correction of the stocks Fifthly this is thy day to prevent the loss of the one and to get an interest in the other this is the day of salvation the accepted day of the Lord 2 Cor. 6.2 Let the sun of this day be set before this work be done and an everlasting night of darkness will close thee in wherein thou thou shalt have time enough indeed to bemoan thy folly but none to learn to grow wiser It is a sad thing especially in soul concernments to be wise too late and to cry out when time is past Oh that I had improved it when it was present then will the Remembrance of thy former mispent time and thy despair of ever gaining more be like poisoned arrows drinking up thy spirit Amongst all the talents God hath entrusted man withal this is not the least because on it depends eternity and according to the use we make of this will our eternal condition be though the most of men live at such a rate as if it was given them to no other end then to waste in wickedness and consume in pleasures what means else their spending dayes weeks moneths years yea their whole life in whoring swearing playing coveting and fulfilling the lusts of the flesh so that when they come to die the great work

sence though not so naturally gathered from this Scripture 2. That he was laid at his gate full of sores These words hold forth the distempers of believers saying He was full of sores which may signifie the many troubles temptations persecutions and afflictions in body and spirit which they meet withal while they are in the world but also the entertainment they finde at the hands of those ungodly ones who live upon the earth Whereas it is said He was laid at his gate full of sores Mark He was laid at his gate not in his house that was thought too good for him But he was laid at his gate full of sores From whence observe That the ungodly world do not desire to entertain and receive the poor Saints of God into their houses If they must needs be somewhere near unto them yet they shall not come into their houses shut them out of doors if they will needs be near us let them be at the gate And he was laid at the gate full of sores 2. Observe that the world are not at all touched with the afflictions of Gods children for all they are full of sores a despised afflicted tempted persecuted people the world doth not pitty no but rather labour to aggravate their trouble by shutting them out of doors sink or swim what cares the world they are resolved to disown them they will give them no entertainment if the lying in the streets will do them any good if hard usage will do them any good if to be disowned rejected and shut out of doors by the world will do them any good they shall have enough of that but otherwise no refreshment no comfort from the world And he was laid at his gate full of sores Verse 21. Verse 21. And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich mans table the dogs came also and licked his sores BY these words our Lord Jesus doth shew us the frame of a Christians heart and also the heart and carriage of worldly men toward the Saints of the Lord the Christians heart is held forth by this that any thing will content him while he is on this side glory And he desired to be fed with the crumbs the dogs meat any thing I say a Christian will be content with any thing if he have but to keep life and soul together as we use to say He is content he is satisfied he hath learned if he hath learned to be a Christian to be content with any thing as Paul saith Phil. 4.21 I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content He learns in all conditions to study to love God to walk with God to give up himself to God and if the crumbs that fall from a rich mans table will but satisfie nature and give him bodily strength that thereby he may be the more able to walk in the way of God he is contented And he desired to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich mans table But mark he had them not you do not finde that he had so much as a crumb or a scrap allowed unto him No then the dogs will be beguild that must be preserved for the dogs From whence observe that the ungodly world do love their dogs better then the children of God You will say that 's strange It is so indeed yet it is true as will be clearly manifested as for instance How many pounds do some men spend in a year on their dogs when in the mean while the poor Saints of God may starve for hunger They will build houses for their dogs when the Saints must be glad to wander and lodge in dens and caves of the earth and if they be in any of their houses for the hire there●f they will warn them out or eject them or pull down the house over their heads rather then not rid themselves of such Tenants Again some men cannot go half a mile from home but they must have their dogs at their heels but they can very willingly go half a score miles without the society of a Christian Nay if when they are busie with their dogs they should chance to meet a Christian they would willingly shift him if they could They will go on the other side of the hedge or the way rather then they will have any society with him and if at any time a child of God should come into an house where there are but two or three ungodly wretches they do commonly wish either themselves or the Saint out of doors and why so Because they cannot down with the society of a Christian though if there come in at the same time a dog or a drunken swearing wretch which is worse then a dog they will make him welcome he shall sit down with them and partake of their dainties And now tell me you that love your sins and your pleasures had you not rather keep company with a drunkard a swearer a strumpet a thief nay a dog as I said before then with an honest hearte● Christian If you say no. What mea●● your sowre carriage to the people of God Why do you look on them as if you would eat them up yet at the very same time if you can but meet your dog or a drunken companion you can fawn upon them take acquaintance with them to the Tavern or Ale-house with them if it be two or three times in a week but if the Saints of God meet together pray together and labour to edifie one another you will stay till doomes-day as they call it before you will look into the house where they are Ah friends when all comes to all you will be found to love drunkards strumpets dogs any thing nay to serve the devil rather then to have loving and friendly society with the Saints of God Moreover The dogs came and licked his sores Here again you may see not onely the afflicted state of the Saints of God in this world but also that even dogs themselves according to their kind are more favourable to the Saints then the sinful world though the ungodly will have no mercy on the Saints yet it is ordered so that these creatures dogs lions c. will Though the rich man would not entertain hi● into his house yet his dogs will come and do him the best good they can even to lick his running sores It was thus with Daniel when the world was mad against him and would have him thrown to the lions to be devoured the lions shut their mouthes at him or rather the Lord did shut them up so that there was not that hurt befell to him as was desired by the adversaries Dan. 6. And this I am perswaded of that would the creatures do as some men would have them the Saints of God should not walk so quietly up and down the streets and other places as they do And as I said before so I say again I am perswaded that at

wise cast me out My crimson sins shall be white as snow I tell thee friend there are some promises that the Lord hath helped me to lay hold of Jesus Christ through and by that I would not have out of the Bible for as much Gold and Silver as can lie between York and London piled up to the stars And why so O because through them Christ is pleased by his Spirit to convey comfort to my soul O I say when the law curses when the Devil tempts when hell-fire flames in my conscience my sins with the guilt of them tearing of me then is Christ revealed so sweetly to my poor soul through the promises that all is forced to fly and leave off to accuse my soul So also when the world frowns when the enemies rage and threaten to knock me in the head then also the precious yea the exceeding great and precious promises do weigh down all and comfort the soul against all This is the effect of believing the Scriptures savingly for they that do so have by and through the Scriptures good comfort and also ground of hope Rom. 15.4 believing those things to be its own which the Scriptures hold forth 4. Examine dost thou stand in aw of sinning against God because he hath in the Scriptures commanded thee to abstain from it Dost thou give diligence to make thy calling and election sure because God commandeth it in Scripture Dost thou examine thy self whether thou be in the faith or no having a command in Scripture so to do Or dost thou notwithstanding what thou readest in the Scripture follow the world delight in sin neglect coming to Jesus Christ speak evil of the Saints slight and make a mock at the ordinances of God delight in wicked company and the like Then know that it is because thou dost not indeed and in truth believe the Scriptures effectually For as I said before if a man do believe them and that savingly O then he stands in aw he looks to his steps he turns his feet from evil and endeavours to follow that which is good which God hath commanded in the Scriptures of truth yet not from a legal or natural principle that is to seek for life by doing that good thing but knowing that salvation is already obtained for him by the blood of that man Christ Jesus on the Cross because he believes the Scriptures therefore mark I pray therefore I say he labours to walk with his God in all well pleasing and godliness because the sweet power of the loves of Christ which he feels in his soul by the Spirit according to the Scriptures constrain him so to do 2 Cor. 5.14 5. Examine again dost thou labour after those qualifications that the Scriptures do describe a child of God by that is faith yea the right faith the most holy faith the faith of the operation of God And also dost thou examine whether there is a real growth of grace in thy soul as love zeal self-denial and a seeking by all means to attain if possible to the resurrection of the dead that is not to satisfie thy self until thou be dissolved rid of this body of death and be transformed into that glory that the Saints shall be in after the resurrection day and in the mean time dost labour and take all opportunities to walk as near as may be to the pitch though thou know thou canst not attain it perfectly yet I say thou doest aim at it seek after it press towards it and to hold on in thy race thou shunnest that which may any way hinder thee and also close in with what may any way further the same knowing that that must be or desiring that it should be thine eternal frame and therefore out of love and liking to it thou dost desire and long after it as being the thing that doth much please thy soul Or how is it with thy soul Art thou such an one as regards not these things but rather busie thy thoughts about the things here below following those things that have no sent of divine glory upon them if so look to thy self for it is high time for thee so to do for thou art an unbeliever and so under the wrath of God and wilt for certain fall into the same place of torment that thy fellows have fallen into before thee to the grief of thy own soul and everlasting destruction both of soul and body Consider and regard these things and lay them to thy heart before it be too late to recover thy self by repenting of the one and desiring to close in with the other O I say regard regard for hell is hot Gods hand is up the Law is resolved to discharge against thy soul the judgement-day is at hand the graves are ready to fly open the trumpet is near the sounding the sentence will ere long be past and then you and I cannot call time again Now then from what hath been spoken there might many things be spoken by way of Use and Application But I shall be very brief and but touch some things and so wind up And first I shall begin with the sad condition of those that die out of Christ and speak something to that Secondly to the latter end of the parable which more evidently concerns the Scripture and speak somewhat to that 1. Therefore you see that the former part of the parable contains a sad declaration of the state of one living and dying out of Christ how that they lose heaven for hell God for the devil light for darkness joy for sorrow 2. How that they have not so much as the least comfort from God who in the time they live here below neglect coming to him for mercy not so much as one drop of cold water 3. That such souls will repent of their folly when repentance will do them no good or when they shall be past recovery 4. That all the comfort such souls are like to have they have it in this world 5. That all their groanings and sighs will not move God to mitigate in the least his heavy hand of vengeance that is upon them for the transgressions they have committed against him 6. That their sad state is irrecoverable or they must never mark never come out of that condition 7. There desires will not be heard for their ungodly neighbours From these things then I pray you consider the state of those that die out of Christ Jesus yea I say consider their miserable state and think thus with thy self Well if I neglect coming to Christ I must go to the devil and he will not neglect to fetch me away into those intollerable torments Think thus with thy self What shall I lose a long heaven for short pleasure shall I buy the pleasures of this world at so dear a rate as to lose my soul for the obtaining of that Shall I content my self with a heaven that will last no longer then my life time What advantage

Redeemer who is the Mediatour of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things for thee then Abels did for Cain Hebrews 12.22 23 24. 3. Consider that when the time of the dead that they shall be raised is come then shall thy body be raised out of the grave and be glorified and be made like to Jesus Christ Phil. 3.21 O excellent condition 4. When Jesus Christ shall sit on the throne of his glory you also shall sit with him even when he shall sit on the throne of his glory O Will not this be glorious that when thousands and thousands of thousands shall be arreigned before the judgement-seat of Christ then for them to sit with him upon the throne together with him to pass the sentence upon the ungodly 1. Cor. 6.2 3. Will it not be glorious to enjoy those things that eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath entred into the heart of man to conceive Will it not be glorious to have this sentence Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world Will it not be glorious to enter then with the Angels and Saints into that glorious kingdom Will it not be glorious for thee to be in glory with them while others are in unutterable torments O then how will it comfort thee to see thou hast not lost that glory to think that the devil hath not got thy soul that thy soul should be saved and that not from a little but from an exceeding danger not with a little but a great salvation O therefore let the Saints be joyful in glory let them triumph over all their enemies Let them begin to sing heaven upon earth triumph before they come to glory salvation even when they are in the midst of their enemies For this honour shall all his Saints have Psal 149.6 7 8 9. But secondly for the latter part of the Parable touching the Scriptures and the certainty of them Seeing they are so certain so sure so irrevocable and firm and seeing the saving faith of the things contained therein is to reform the soul and bring it over into the things of God really conforming to the things contained therein both to the point of Justification and also an impracticall walking and giving up the soul and body to a conformity to all the commands counsels instructions and exhortations contained therein This then will learn us how to judge of those who give up themselves to walk in the imaginations of their own hearts who slight and lay aside the Scriptures counting them but empty and uncertain things and will live every day in open contradiction to what is contained commanded and forbidden therein As first this will shew us that all your Drunkards Whoremasters Liars Thieves Swearers Back-biters Slanderers Scoffers at goodness c. I say we may see by this that they that live in such things have not the faith of the things contained in their hearts seeing they delight to practise those things that are forbidden by and in them And so they continuing living and dying in this state we may conclude without fear that such portions of holy Scripture belong unto them and shall for certain be fulfilled upon them He that believes not shall be damned Mark 16. 16. The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God 1. Corinthians 6.9 10. But the abominable the unbeleiving the whoremongers and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone Revelation 21.8 Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels M●tthew 25.41 Depart that is as if he should say Depart from me for I will not save you Depart for my blood shall not at all wash you Depart for you shall not set one foot into the kingdom of heaven Depart ye cursed that is ye are cursed of God cursed of his Law cursed of me cursed by the Saints and cursed by the Angels cursed all over nothing but cursed and therefore depart from me and whither Into everlasting fire fire that will scald scorch burn and flame to a purpose fire that never shall be quenched Mark 9. fire that will last to all eternity And must we be all alone No you shall have company store of company with you Namely all th● raging roaring devils together with an innumerable company of fellow damned sin●ers men women and children And if the Scriptures be true as they will one day wonderfully appear to be then this must and shall be thy portion if thou live and die in this state and of all them who continue in sinning against the truths contained in Scriptures As first Dost thou delight to sin against plain commands thou art gone Secondly Dost thou slight and scorn the counsels contained in Scriptures and continue in so doing then thou art gone Thirdly Dost thou continually neglect to come to Christ and usest arguments in thine own heart to satisfie thy soul with so doing then thou art gone Luke 14.17 18. compared with verse 24. and Hebrews 2.3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation How shall we escape that is t●ere is no way to escape First because God hath said we shall not Heb. 12.25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth that was Moses much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven 2. Because he hath not onely said they shall not but also hath bound it with an oath saying So I sware in my wrath they shall not enter into my rest Hebrews 3.11 But you will say To whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest Ans er To them that believed not So we see they could not enter in because of unbelief verse 18 19. Secondly this will teach us what to think and conclude of such who though they do not so openly discover their folly by open and grosse sins against the Law yet will give more heed to their own spir t s and the movings thereof though they be neither commanded nor commended for the same in Scripture nay though the Scripture command and commend the contrary Isaiah 8.20 then they will to the holy and revealed will of God I say such men are in as bad a state as the other to the full being disobedient to Gods will revealed in his word as well as they though in a different manner the one openly transgressing against the plain and well known truths revealed in it the other though more close and hidden yet secretly rejecting and slighting them giving more heed to their own spirits and the motion thereof although not warranted by the Scriptures A few words more and so I shall conclude And first take heed that you content not your self with a bare notion of the Scriptures in your heads by which you may go far even so far as to be able