Person:Nathaniel Rogers (13)

m. Abt 1595
  1. Rev. Nathaniel Rogers1598 - 1655
m. 23 Jan 1625
  1. Mary RogersAbt 1625 - Bef 1694
  2. John Rogers1630 - 1684
  3. Nathaniel Rogers1632 - 1680
  4. Samuel Rogers1634/35 - 1693
  5. Ezekiel RogersAbt 1638 - 1674
  6. Timothy Rogers1638 -
Facts and Events
Name Rev. Nathaniel Rogers
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1598 Haverhill, Suffolk, England
Marriage 23 Jan 1625 Messing, Essex, Englandto Margaret Crane
Death[1] 3 Jul 1655 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q6969832?


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Nathaniel Rogers (1598–1655) was a Puritan clergyman in England and New England. According to the Dictionary of National Biography article on Rogers (published 1897), his descendants in America were at that time more numerous than those of any other early English emigrant family.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Sprague, William Buell. Annals of the American pulpit : or commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations, from the early settlement of the country to: or commemorative notices of distinguished American clergymen of various denominations, from the early settlement of the country to the close of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five with historical introductions. (New York City, New York,: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1869)
    I:87-89.

    "Nathaniel Rogers was born at Haverhil, in Suffolk, England, in the
    year 1598. He was the second son of the Rev. John Rogers of Dedham,
    and a descendant of the martyr. He studied at the Grammar School at
    Dedham, till he was nearly fourteen years old, and was then admitted into
    Emanuel College, Cambridge. Here he was a most diligent and exact
    student, and was distinguished by his acquisitions in the various branches
    of academic learning. Under the instruction of his excellent parents, he
    became early impressed by the great truths of religion, and resolved to
    devote himself to the ministry of the Gospel. It is related of him that, in
    the hurry of business, he went out one morning from home, without attending
    to his usual private devotions, and that he was subjected to a serious
    injury from the stumbling and falling of his horse. He recognised in the
    circumstance an admonition which he ever afterwards heeded, not to allow
    any worldly engagements to interfere with his accustomed attendance on
    the duties of the closet.

    Mr. Rogers, having completed his course at the University, gave the first
    specimen of his ministerial abilities, in the capacity of domestic chaplain to
    a person of rank. After continuing in this situation about two years, he
    became assistant to Dr. Barkham, the minister of a large congregation at
    Booking in Essex. As the Doctor's ecclesiastical sympathies were known
    to be with the views and measures of Bishop Laud, it was a matter of surprise
    to many that he should have employed, as a curate, a son of one of the
    most noted of the Puritans. Mr. Rogers was greatly beloved by the people,
    many of whom fully appreciated his earnest and self-denying labours ; and
    though the Doctor evinced little liberality towards him in a pecuniary way,
    while yet he treated him with general civility, the people, by their private
    contributions, cheerfully made out for him an adequate support.

    He seems originally to have been but little embarrassed in conforming
    to the ceremonies of the Established Church of England ; but his scruples
    were much increased by a conference which he had on the subject with
    Thomas Hooker, who was at that time lecturer at Chelmsford. Shortly
    after this, Dr. Barkham having noticed that Mr. Rogers left off the surplice,
    on the occasion of his officiating at the funeral of some distinguished individual,
    expressed his dissatisfaction by giving him leave to find another field
    of labour.

    Having remained at Booking about five years, he was presented to the
    living in Assington, Suffolk, where, by the favour of the Bishop of Norwich,
    he was suffered to continue in quietude five years more. Here his
    ministry commanded great attention, and was apparently attended with an
    uncommon blessing. Persons of all classes, not only from the town but
    the surrounding country, thronged to hear him, so that his church was constantly
    filled to its utmost capacity. It became evident to him, however,
    that he could not much longer retain the position which he held ; and he
    therefore, in anticipation of coming evil, resigned his living into the hands
    of his patron, and determined to migrate to New England.

    Mr. Rogers had, previous to this time, married a daughter of Mr. Robert
    Crane of Coggeshall,—a gentleman of large property, who would gladly have
    maintained him and his family, if he would have remained in England, and
    yet did not feel at liberty to oppose his removal. He accordingly embarked
    with his family for New England, June 1, 1636 ; but the vessel did not
    cast anchor in Massachusetts Bay until the 16th of November. Before
    their arrival they had become well nigh discouraged, and had begun even
    to agitate the question whether they should not return to England; but,
    having kept a day of fasting and prayer in reference to it, they were quickly
    relieved by the return of good weather and favourable winds, and were
    shortly after safely landed in port. Mr. Ralph Partridge, another Puritan
    minister, came in the same ship with Mr. Rogers.

    The year after his arrival, Mr. Rogers was a member of the Synod that
    met at Cambridge, with a view to suppress the famous Antinomian controversy.
    He was first invited to settle at Dorchester ; but, as those who had
    come with him from England, could not be accommodated there, he went
    with them to Ipswich, where he was ordained as pastor, February 20, 1638,
    the sermon on the occasion being preached by himself, from II. Cor. ii., 16 : —"a sermon," says Cotton Mather, "so copious, judicious, accurate and
    elegant, that it struck the hearers with admiration." John Norton was
    ordained, at the same time, as teacher, having previously ministered in that
    capacity in connection with Mr. Ward.
    For more than a dozen years, Mr. Rogers laboured in harmony with his
    colleague, and much to the acceptance of his congregation. His health,
    however, was far from being firm, and he had frequent turns of raising
    blood, in which he used to comfort himself by saying with another, that
    "though he should spit out his own blood, by which his life was to be
    maintained, yet he should never lose the benefits of Christ's blood, by
    which he was redeemed." He was subject also to severe fits of hijpocondria,
    during one of which, his friend John Cotton thus addressed him in a
    letter :

    " I bless the Lord with you, who supporteth your feeble body, to do Him service,
    and meanwhile perfecteth the power of his grace in your weakness. You know who
    gaid it, ' Unmortified strength posteth hard to Hell, but sanctified weakness creepeth
    last to Heaven.' Let not your spirit faint, though your body do. Your soul is precious
    in God's sight; your hairs are numbered; and the number and measure of your
    faintingfits and wearisome nights are weighed and limited by his hand, who hath
    given you liis Lord Jesus Christ, to take upon Him your infirmities and bear your
    sicknesses."

    About two years before the death of Mr. Rogers, Mr. Norton, his colleague,
    was invited to the pastoral charge of a church in Boston. This was
    the origin of no inconsiderable uneasiness at Ipswich, and of a severe trial
    to Mr. Rogers, as he was suspected by some of not being sufficiently active
    to retain his colleague. Though he was not, at this time, far advanced in
    years, yet he was fast sinking under bodily infirmities. He had been, during
    a great part of his life, given to the excessive use of tobacco ; and, having
    become convinced that the habit was not only injurious to his physical constitution,
    but beneath the dignity of his Christian and ministerial character,
    he undertook to abstain from it altogether. About the time that he made
    this change, he was seized with a sort of epidemic cough, which, though not
    at first of a threatening character, soon reached a fatal termination. One of
    his last acts was to bless the three children of his daughter, who had
    evinced towards him the most tender and dutiful affection. In his dying
    moments, he enjoyed the utmost peace, and exclaimed in joyful submission,
    with nearly his last breath,—" My times are in thy hands." He died July
    3, 1655, aged fifty-seven years. His estate in Old and New England
    amounted to twelve hundred pounds. His wife, Margaret, died January 23,
    1656. He left five sons and one daughter. His eldest son, John, was
    afterwards President of Harvard College. His daughter was married to
    the Rev. William Hubbard.

    Mr. Rogers' only publication is a Letter to the Honourable House of
    Commons at Westminster, on the subject of Reformation, bearing date
    1643. He left in MS. a Vindication, in Latin, of the Congregational
    Church government, from which Cotton Mather has preserved a considerable
    extract. The reason given for his not having published any of his discourses
    is, that his health would not allow him to bestow upon them the
    labour which was necessary to give them the finish which his exquisite taste
    demanded. He is known to have kept a diary ; but it seems to have been
    entirely for his own benefit; and his friends to whom he entrusted it, in
    obedience to his express injunction, committed it to the flames.

    Cotton Mather says of Mr. Rogers,
    "He might be compared with the very best of the true ministers which made the
    best days of New England."

    Hubbard, his son-in-law, the Historian, says,
    "He had eminent learning, singular piety and holy zeal. His auditory were bis
    epistle, seen and read of all that knew him."

  2.   Nathaniel Rogers (minister), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.