This volume presents documents in the history of deistic thought, many of which were first published clandestinely as publication was regarded as dangerous and would have been open to charges of subversion and treason.

This volume presents work by Peter Annet, long considered by many to have been one of the most aggressive deists of the 18th-century.

This volume outlines the author's scepticism about the veridity of some Old Testament history and provoked an open dispute with Samuel Chandler. Many of the theological ideas presented here are embedded in innovatory and persuasive ideas about ethics, language, anthropology and epistemology.