A VISION Concerning The Mischievous Separation AMONG FRIENDS IN Old England.  
Printed and Sold by Will. Bradford at Philadelphia, 1692.   

A VISION Concerning The Mischievous Separation, IN Old England  
Dear Friends & Brethren,  
AS I was at Prayer in my Chamber upon the twenty third Day of ●he Twelfth Month, in the Year 1678. and making Inter●●ssion to the Lord for Friends, his People, That the Lord would be pleased to preserve th●m from this Rough and Foul Spirit that was risen up; and the Lord did answer me in my Prayer▪ That this Spirit was risen up for the Trial of hi● People, in the Life, and Light, and Power, and Grace, and Truth. And I saw more than can be expressed in words; for it was risen for to try them, and that they might keep in th● Power of the Lord, and in their Habitations.  
And so, when the Lord hath tried his People, and their singleness to him, and when this Spirit hath spent its Strength, and gone the Way of all that hath risen before it, Then they may see how all things work together for the good of them that love God. And therefore stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, in his Light, Grace and Truth, and Power, and Spirit, and Faith, to Christ, from whence it comes, Christ your Rock and Foundation, that cannot be shaken, and in whom is your Election, Life and Salvation. So that all may stand to Christ their Lord and Master, to be ordered by him, with his glorious Gospel, which is not of Man, but from Heaven.  
For I saw all Friends as if they were bedewed from Heaven, and they sat as in a Valley, and wet with the Dew of Life; and the other hard dead Spirit was floating a top with the Words of Truth, which Spirit is for the Trial of his People, of their standing singly in the Life, to God, upon their own Foundation.  
So as I was at Prayer, the Lord answered me, That this Spirit of J. S. J. W. and their Company, were raised up for the Trial of Friends, their standing to God; for it was High, and Friends were Low, in the Power and Spiri● of God, and wet with Dew and sat in the Valley, and will rise when their Height will fall; and therefore Friends are to stand to God.  
G. F.  
A General EPISTLE AGAINST Separation.  
Dear Friends and Brethren;  
IN the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom you have all Peace and Life; and in him there is no Division, nor Schism, nor Rent, nor Strife, nor Separation; for Christ is not divided, and there can be no Separation in the Light, Grace, Faith and holy Ghost, but Unity, and Fellowship, and Communion; for the Devil was the first that went out of the Truth, and separated fro● it, and tempted Man and Woman to disobey God, and to go from the Truth into a false Liberty, and to that which God forbade. And so, it is the Serpent now that leads Man and Woman into a false Liberty, the God of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, from which Man and Woman must be separated by the Truth, and then for Christ the Truth to make them free, and then they are free indeed; and then they are to stand fast in the Liberty in which Christ hath made them free; and in him, as I said before, there is no Division, nor Schism, nor Rent, nor Separation, but Peace, and Life, and Reconciliation to God, and one to another; so that in Christ Male and Female are all one; whether they be Male or Female, Jew or Gentile, Bond or Free, they are all one in Christ; and there can be no Schism, Rent or Division in him, nor in the Worship of God in his holy Spirit and Truth, nor in the pure undefiled Religion that keeps from the spots of the World, nor in the Love of God that beareth and endureth all things, nor in the Word of God's Grace; for it is pure, and endureth forever. Many, you see, have lost the Word of Patience, and the Word of Wisdom, that is pure, and peaceable▪ and gentle, and easy to be entreated; when they are gone from the ●ord of Patience, than we have seen their own Patience quickly worn out, when they turn from the Word of Wisdom that is pure, and peaceable, and gentle, and easy to be entreated, than they run into the Wisdom that is below, that is earthly, sensual and devilish, and very uneasy to be entreated; they are gone from the Love of God that fears all things, and endureth all things, and thinketh no evil, and doth not behave itself unseemly; then they cannot bear, but grow brittle, and are easily provoked, and run into unseemly things and vaunteth itself, and is puffed up, and is Rash, Heady, highminded and Fierce, and becomes like sounding Brass, or a Tinkling Simbal; and this is contrary to the Nature of the Love of God, which is kind, and endureth all things, and beareth all things.  
And therefore all Dear Friends and Brethren, dwell in the Love of God; for they who dwell in Love, dwell in God, and God in them, and keep in the Word of Wisdom, which is gentle, pure and peaceable, and the Word of Patience that endureth and beareth all things; and this Word of Patience the Devil, and the World and all his Instruments can never wear out, it will wear them all out, and was before they were, and will be when ●hey are gone, the pure holy Word of God, by which all God's Children are born again, and feed on the Milk of the Word of Life, and grow by it. And so my desires are, That you be all of one Heart, Mind, Soul and Spirit, in Christ Jesus. Amen.  
You may Read this in your Monthly and Quarterly Meetings. Bednell Green, near London, the ●5. 10. Mo. 1686.  
THE END.