Owen remained convinced that the children of believers ought to be instructed in the faith and that the child’s family and congregation should work together to achieve this end. He addressed this responsibility in two catechisms that he published in 1645, during the period of his parish ministry, and in The Primer, which he published in 1652, after taking up his role as a university administrator at Oxford. His catechisms are well known, were reprinted within his lifetime, and follow the familiar