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 Coming of Christ,’ &c. [translated from the Latin of S. a Geveren [London, 1577], 4to, 1578 4to, 1589 4to.

Other original publications by him were: 1. ‘A Philosophical Discourse, entituled the Anatomie of the Minde,’ black letter, London, 1576, 8vo. 2. ‘General Session, containing an Apology of the Comfortable Doctrine concerning the End of the World and the Second Coming of Christ,’ London, 1581, 4to. 3. ‘A Golden Chaine taken out of the Rich Treasure House, the Psalms of King David …’ 1587, 8vo, with ‘The Pearls of King Solomon gathered into Common Places—taken from the Proverbs of the said King.’ 4. ‘Historical Dialogue touching Antichrist and Popery,’ London, 1589, 8vo. 5. ‘A Sermon upon the 6, 7 and 8 Verses of the 12 Chapter of St. Pauls Epistle unto the Romanes [in answer to a sermon by T. Cartwright on the same Text],’ London, 13 April 1590, 4to. 6. ‘Miles Christianus, or a Just Apologie of all necessarie … writers, speciallie of them which … in a … Deffamatorie Epistle [by M. Mosse] are unjustly depraved,’ 1590, 4to. 7. ‘Two Dialogues or Conferences (about an old question lately renued …) concerning kneeling in the very act of receiving the Sacramental bread and wine in the Supper of the Lord,’ London, 1608, 4to.

Rogers's numerous translations included ‘A General Discourse against the damnable Sect of Usurers, &c. [from the Latin of Cæsar Philippus],’ 1578, 4to; ‘The Enemie of Securitie … [from the Latin of J. Habermann],’ 1580 12mo, 1591 12mo; ‘The Faith of the Church Militant … described in this Exposition of the 84 Psalme by … N. Hemmingius …’ 1581, 8vo; ‘St. Augustine's Praiers,’ London, 1581, with ‘St. Augustine's Manual;’ ‘A pretious Book of Heavenlie Meditations by St. Augustine,’ London, 1600 12mo, 1612 12mo, 1616 12mo, 1629 12mo, dedicated to Thomas Wilson, D.C.L.; ‘Of the Foolishness of Men in putting off the Amendement of their Lives from Daie to Daie [from the Latin of J. Rivius]’ (1582?), 8vo; ‘A Methode unto Mortification: called heretofore the Contempt of the World and the vanitie thereof. Written at the first in the Spanish [by D. de Estella], afterwards translated into the Italian, English, and Latine Tongues,’ London, 1608, 12mo; ‘Soliloquium Animæ … [by Thomas à Kempis],’ 1616 12mo, 1628 12mo, 1640 12mo.

Hazlitt also identifies him with the Thomas Rogers, author of ‘Celestiall Elegies of the Goddesses and the Muses, deploring the death of Frances, Countesse of Hertford,’ London, 1598; reprinted in the Roxburghe Club's ‘Lamport Garland,’ 1887. In Harleian MS. 3365 is ‘The Ambassador's Idea,’ a work finished by T. Rogers on 13 July 1638, and dedicated to Jerome, earl of Portland. It does not appear to have been printed.

[Authorities as in text; Hazlitt's Handbook and Collections, passim.] 

ROGERS, THOMAS (1660–1694), divine, son of John and grandson of Thomas Rogers, successively rectors of Bishop's Hampton (now Hampton Lucy), Warwickshire, was born at Bishop's Hampton on 27 Dec. 1660, and educated at the free school there. He entered Trinity College, Oxford, matriculating, on 15 March 1675–6, under the tutorship of John Willis. He shortly afterwards transferred himself to Hart Hall, and graduated thence on 23 Oct. 1679, and M.A. on 5 July 1682 (, Alumni Oxon.;, Fasti, ii. 383; Athenæ Oxon. iv. 400). He took holy orders, and on Low Sunday 1688 performed in St. Mary's Church the part of repetitioner of the four Easter sermons; he was inducted in April 1690 to the small rectory of Slapton, near Towcester in Northamptonshire. He died of small-pox in the house of Mr. Wright, a schoolmaster, in Bunhill Fields, on 8 June 1694. He was buried in the church of St. Mary Overy, Southwark (, Warwickshire Worthies).

Rogers wrote: 1. ‘Lux Occidentalis, or Providence displayed in the Coronation of King William and Queen Mary and their happy Accession to the Crown of England, and other remarks,’ London, 1689, 4to (poem of twenty-eight pages under the running title of ‘The Phœnix and Peacock’). 2. ‘The Loyal and Impartial Satyrist, containing eight miscellany poems, viz. (1) “The Ghost of an English Jesuit,” &c.; (2) “Looking on Father Peter's Picture;” (3) “Eccebolius Britannicus, or a Memento to the Jacobites of the higher order,”’ London, 1693, 4to. 3. ‘A Poesy for Lovers, or the Terrestrial Venus unmask'd, in four poems, viz. (1) “The Tempest, or Enchanting Lady;” (2) “The Luscious Penance, or the Fasting Lady,”’ &c., London, 1693, 4to. 4. ‘The Conspiracy of Guts and Brains, or an Answer to the Twin Shams,’ &c., London, 1693. 5. ‘A True Protestant Bridle, or some Cursory Remarks upon a Sermon preached [by William Stephens, rector of Sutton in Surrey] before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London on 30 January 1693, in a Letter to Sir P. D.,’ London, 1694. 6. ‘The Commonwealths Man unmasqu'd, or a just Rebuke to the Author of the “Ac-