Rogers, John (2), an English divine, was born probably in 1565, and is supposed to have been a grand- son of the preceding. He was minister of Chacomb, Northamptonshire, from 1587 to 1620, the j'ear of his death. His published work is a Discourse on Christian Watchfulness, etc. (Lond. 1620, 8vo). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. Authors, s. v.
Rogers, John (3), an English Puritan divine, was educated at Cambridge. He became vicar of Hemming- ham in 1592, minister of Haverhill in 1603, and was af- terwards minister of Dedham, Essex, where he died in 1630. His works are : Sirfy Memorials of a Godly Life : — Treatise of Love: — Doctrine (f Faith (Lond. 2d ed. 1627 ; 6th ed. 1634, 12mo) : — Exposition of First Epistle of Peter (ibid. 1650, fol.). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v.; Darling, Cyclopoidia Bibiio- graphica, s. v.
Rogers, John (4), a Congregational preacher, was born probably at Assington, England, and came with his father to New England in 1636. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1649, having studied medicine and theology. He was invited to preach at Ipswich in 1656, where he remained until he became president of Harvard College, August, 1683. He died July 2, 1684. See Sprague, .4 nnals of the A mer. Pulpit, i, 147.
Rogers, John (5), a Congregational minister, and son of the preceding, was born July 7, 1666, was grad- uated at Harvard College in 1684, was ordained at Ips- wich, Oct. 12, 1()92, and died Dec. 12, 1745. His works are: Death the Wages of Sin (1701); — Election Sermon (1706) •.—Sermon on the'Death ofJ.Appkton (1739). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Sprague, Annals of the A mer. Pulpit, i, 147.
Rogers, John (6), D.D., an English divine, was born at Ensham, Oxfordshire, in 1679, was educated at New College school, Oxford, and in 1693 was elected scholar of Corpus Christi College. After taking his de- gree in arts and entering orders, he waited for a fellow- ship, which he secured in 1706), l)ut in the meantime had become vicar of Buckland, Berkshire. He took the degree of B.D. in 1710, was made lecturer of St. Clement's Danes in 1712, afterwards becoming lecturer of the united parishes of Christ Church and St. Leon- ard's, Foster Lane. In 1716 he became rector of Wring- ton, Somersetshire; prebend of Wells in 1718; sidxlcan of the same in 1721 ; chaplain to (ieorge II, then jjriiice of Wales; and vicar of St. (iiles's, Cripplegate, London, October, 1728. He died IMay 1, 1729. He wrote. The Visible and Divisible Church of Christ (2d ed. Lond. 1719, 8vo) : — Necessity of Divine Revelation (1727, 8vo) : — Sermons (4 vols. 8vo). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and
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Rogers, Joseph, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Wiveliscombe. Somersetshire, England, .June 11, 1815. lie emigrated to tlie L'nited States at an early age, and settleil in Xew York cily. He was converted when about twenty-two years old, pursued his preparatory studies underDr. Owen.of New York city, graduated at Prince- ton College in IH45, and at the Theological Seminary at Princeton in IStS, and was licensed to preach the same year by the Presbytery of New York. After leaving the seminary, he labored at May's Landing and Pleasant ^lills, Atlantic Co., N. J., in the employment ofthe Board (if Domestic Missions, until 1850, when he received an appointment to the Church of Hound Prairie, la., over which he was installed pastor in 1851. In 1853, because of failing health, he returned East, and spent the suc- ceeding four years in i>reaching and teaching in Attle- boro'. i'a. ; Bridgeton, N. .1.; the vicinity of Fredericks- burg, Va. ; and at Newtown, Pa. In 1857 he received a call to, and was installed pastor of, tiie churches of King- wood and Frenciitown, N. J., where he continued to la- bor till his death, Aug. 20, 1803. iMr. Rogers was a dili- gent student, a ripe scliolar, and of tine attainments in the different branches of a liberal education, especially in the Greek language and English literature. As a preacher he was naturally cloinient. See Wilson, Presb. JJisL A ImaiKir, 18ti4, p. l{)2. (J. L. S.)
Rogers, Lorenzo, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Orange County, Vt., March 12, 1804, and was converted in 1828. He enter- ed the ministry in 1834, was superannuated by the Erie Conference in 1854, and died in Cleveland, O., Feb. 17, 18(55. He was greatly influential in winning men to Christ. See Minutes of A nmud Conferences, 1865, p. 131.
Rogers, Nathaniel, a Congregational minister, was born at Haverhill, Suffolk, England, in 1598. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and, after serving for two years as a domestic chaplain, be- came Dr. Barkham's assistant at Bocking, Essex, where he remained for five years; and obtaining the living of Assington, Suffolk, he continued there until June 1, 1636, when he sailed for New England, and arrived Nov. 16. He was ordained, Feb. 20, 1038. pastor at Ipswich ; and died July 3, 1655. He iiul)lished, .1 Letter to the Hon. House of Comuions at Westminster on the Subject of Reformation (1643). See Spraguc, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 87.