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ROGERS, JOHN (1627–c. 1665)

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ROGERS, See also:JOHN (1627–c. 1665) , See also:English preacher, second son of See also:Nehemiah Rogers, a royalist and See also:Anglican clergyman, was See also:born at Messing in See also:Essex, and became a servitor and student of See also:medicine at See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge. When still a youth the violence of his religious despair led him to See also:attempt See also:suicide and ended in his joining the extreme See also:sect of the Puritans. Deprived of his See also:home in 1642, he walked to Cambridge, and found the college See also:establishment broken up; he nearly starved, but obtained in 1643 a scholastic See also:post in See also:Lord Brudenel's See also:house in See also:Huntingdonshire, and subsequently at St Neot's See also:free school. He became known as a preacher, received Presbyterian ordination in 1647, married a daughter of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Payne of Midloe in Huntingdonshire, and obtained the living of Purleigh in Essex. Subsequently he came to See also:London, joined the See also:Independents, became lecturer at St See also:Thomas Apostle's, and attracted See also:attention by the violence of his See also:political sermons. He was appointed preacher to See also:Christ See also:Church See also:Cathedral in See also:Dublin by the See also:parliament in 1651, and while there served in the See also:field, returning in 1652 to St Thomas Apostle's on See also:account of religious dissensions. In 1653 his parishioners at Purleigh, where he had hitherto managed to retain the living, successfully proceeded against him for non-See also:residence. In the See also:quarrel between the See also:army and the parliament Rogers had naturally sided with the former, and he was one of the first to join the Fifth See also:Monarchy See also:movement. He approved of the See also:expulsion of the See also:Long Parliament, and addressed two letters to See also:Cromwell on the subject of the new See also:government to be inaugurated, but the establishment of the See also:Protectorate at once threw the Fifth Monarchy men into antagonism. Rogers addressed a warning See also:letter to Cromwell, and boldly attacked him from the See also:pulpit on the 9th of See also:January 1654. Thereupon his house was searched and his papers seized, and Rogers then issued another denunciation against Cromwell, Mene, Tekel, See also:Perez: a Letter lamenting over See also:Oliver Lord Cromwell.

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March, on which See also:day he had proclaimed a fast for the sins of the rulers, he preached a violent See also:sermon against the See also:protector, which occasioned his See also:arrest in See also:July. He confronted Cromwell with See also:great courage when brought before him on the 5th of See also:February 1655, and was imprisoned successively at See also:Windsor and in the Isle of See also:Wight, being released in January 1657. He returned to London, and, being suspected of a See also:conspiracy, was again imprisonedby Cromwell in the See also:Tower from the 3rd of February 1658 till the 16th of See also:April. On the protector's See also:death and the downfall of See also:Richard Cromwell, the ideals of the Fifth Monarchy men seemed nearer realization, but Rogers was engaged in political controversy with See also:Prynne and became a source of embarrassment to his own See also:faction, which endeavoured to get rid of him by appointing him " to preach the See also:gospel " in See also:Ireland. On the outbreak of Sir See also:George See also:Booth's royalist insurrection, how-ever, he became See also:chaplain in See also:Charles See also:Fairfax's See also:regiment, and served throughout the See also:campaign. He obtained a lectureship at See also:Shrewsbury in See also:October and was in Dublin in January 166o, being imprisoned there by See also:order of the army faction and released subsequently by the parliament. At the Restoration he withdrew to See also:Holland, studied medicine at See also:Leiden and See also:Utrecht, and obtained from the latter university'the degree of M.D. in 1662. He returned to See also:England the same See also:year and resided at See also:Bermondsey, was admitted to the degree of M.D. at See also:Oxford in 1664, and is supposed, in the See also:absence of further See also:record, to have died soon afterwards. Besides the pamphlet already cited, Rogers wrote in 1653 Ohel or Bethshemesh, a See also:Tabernacle for the See also:Sun, in which he attacked the Presbyterians, and Sagrir, or Doomesday See also:drawing nigh, from his new standpoint as a Fifth Monarchy See also:man, and was the author of Challah, the Heavenly Nymph (1653) ; Dod, or Chathan; the Beloved or the See also:Bride-See also:groom going forth for his Bride . . . (1653) ; See also:Prison-born See also:Morning Beams (1654) ; Jegar Sahadutha ... (1657) ; Mr Prynne's See also:Good Old Cause stated and stunted zo Year ago .

. (1609); LltairoXtreia, a See also:

Christian Concertation (1659); Mr See also:Harrington's Parallel Unparalleled (1659); A Vindication of Sir H. See also:Vane (1659); Disputatio Medica Inauguralis (1662). Rogers (1867), compiled from Rogers's own See also:works; See also:Wood, Athenae Oxonieytses and See also:Fasti; Calendars of See also:State Papers (Domestic). See also " English Ancestry of See also:Washington," Harper's See also:Magazine, xxi. 887 (1891); " John Rogers of Purleigh," The Nation, vol. 53, p.

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