ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an outline how to carry out the duties, the proper relationship between the magistrate and the ministry had to be defined. For Owen, this involved setting out the nature of the boundaries which he believed to exist between the spheres of religion and politics. The chapter explains how, in a situation of flux, in which the existing church settlement had been rendered obsolete, Owen played a vital role in the quest for a new religious settlement. He insisted that any proposed settlement should both include and protect the whole number of the godly, and not just one constituent party thereof. Furthermore, such a settlement should be instrumental in propagating the gospel throughout the nation. Owen believed the type of settlement he envisaged to be a via media between other more extreme positions and one which ought to be acceptable to all parties who deserved to share in it.
