"An Account of the Growth of Deism in England" by William Stephens is not a scholarly summing up of Deism, but a forthright polemical pamphlet from the time of William and Mary and the "Non-juring bishops." Originally published as a pamphlet, this text is a political work that encapsulates England at the time of its publishing after the long road of change that led to its state in the late 1600s.