J. ROGERS. 327 St. Thomas the Apostle's, but was soon after ejected. This kind of usage very much troubled him, and he petitioned the lords commissioners for his restoration, but without success.. He afterwards went to Ireland, most probably with the English army, and was chosen minister of Christ's church, Dublin. But the exact time of his return to England we have not been able to learn. He was a zealous and active man, and in his principles a fifth monarchy-man, and of the baptist persuasion. About the year 1649, he married the daughter of Sir Robert Paine of Huntingdonshire. Wood denominates him " a notorious fifth monarchy-man and an anabaptist, and a busy, pragmatical fellow ;" and says, " he was very zealous to promote a quarrel between his party and Oliver Cromwell, for seeming to unite with them till he had got the reins i of government nto his own hands, and then leaving them with scorn. He, with Mr. Christopher Feake, one as impudent and forward as himself, were the leaders of their party, and not wanting on all occasions to raise -a corn- rnotion."t Mr. Rogers, as well as his brethren, was extremely hostile to Cromwell's government. He openly declared his senti- ments against it. In his prayer before the public congrega- tion, he used many such expressions as these : " Hasten the time, when all absolute power shall be devolved into the hands of Christ; when we shall have no lord protector, but one Lord Jesus Christ, the only true protector and defender of the faith. Look in mercy on thy saints at Windsor, who are imprisoned for the truth and testimony of Jesus : be thou their freedom and enlargement."t Having repeatedly de- clared against Cromwell's usurpation, both by preaching and writing, he was apprehended and cast into prison,§ This was about the year 1654. Mr. Rogers andseveral of his brethren were confined at Lambeth, when no one of their party was allowed to have access to them. In the " Declaration of several of the churches of Christ," subscribed and published during this year, twenty-five of them are said to have sub- scribed "in the name of the whole body that walks with Mr. Rogers, now prisoner for this cause of Christ at Lambeth prison.1 Mr, Rogers, after remaining in confinement some time, was Thurloe's State Papers, vol. iii. p. 485. f Athena Oxon. vol. ii. p. 442. Thurloe's State Papers, vol. iii. p. 483. Ludlow's Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 490. Edit. 1699. Declaration, p.21.
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