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  John Rogers (religious) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rogers had little to do with the translation; his own share in that work was probably confined to translating the prayer of Manasses (inserted here for the first time in a printed English Bible), the general task of editing the materials at his disposal, and preparing the marginal notes, collected from various sources.
Rogers; and so was brought the same day, the fourth of February, by the sheriffs, towards Smithfield, saying the Psalm Miserere by the way, all the people wonderfully rejoicing at his constancy; with great praises and thanks to God for the same.
John Rogers (1679-1729), one of George II's chaplains, famous for his share in the Bangorian controversy (1719), his Vindication of the Civil Establishment of Religion (1728), and his Persuasives to Conformity, addressed to Dissenters (1736) and to Quakers (1747).
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 John "Thomas Matthew" Rogers
John Rogers was born in 1500 in the parish of Aston, near Birmingham.
John Rogers was the first English Protestant martyr to be executed by Mary I of England, a.k.a.
John Rogers awaited and met death on the 4th of February 1555 at Smithfield cheerfully, though he was denied even a last moment with his wife.
www.greatsite.com /timeline-english-bible-history/john-rogers.html   (953 words)

  
 JOHN ROGERS (c. 1500-1555) - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN ROGERS (c. 1500-1555)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
After Tyndale's death Rogers pushed on with his predecessor's English version of the Old Testament, which he used as far as 2 Chronicles, employing Coverdale's translation (1535) for the remainder and for the Apocrypha.
Rogers had little to do with the translation, but he contributed some valuable prefaces and marginal notes.
JOHN ROGERS (1778-1856), rector of Mawnan, Cornwall, and the owner of the Penrose and Helston estates; a good botanist and mineralogist, and a distinguished Hebrew and Syriac scholar.
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 John Rogers The Martyr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John Rogers was born at Deritend soon after 1500.
It was Monday morning, between nine and ten o’clock, the 4th day of February, 1555, when Rogers was led, for the last time, through the gates of the dreary prison that had been his home for more than a twelfthmonth, and, amidst a formidable army of armed guards, was conducted towards Smithfield.
Soon afterwards Rogers was taken out of jail to be burnt in Smithfield; and, in the crowd as he went along, he saw his poor wife and his ten children, of whom the youngest was a little baby.
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 America as a Religious Refuge: the 17th Century (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of ...
Ogilvie was sentenced to death by a Glasgow court and hanged and mutilated on March 10, 1615.
The dominance of the concept, denounced by Roger Williams as "inforced uniformity of religion," meant majority religious groups who controlled political power punished dissenters in their midst.
Rogers was a Catholic priest who converted to Protestantism in the 1530s under the influence of William Tyndale and assisted in the publication of Tyndale’s English translations of the Bible.
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 John Rogers : John Rogers (1500 - 1555)
John Rogers : John Rogers (1500 - 1555)
JOHN ROGERS (c1572-i603), Puritan vicar of Dedham, Essex, " one of the most awakening preachers of the age."
JOHN ROGERS (c.1748-i8i4), leader of the Irish seceding divines, minister of Cahans, Co. Monaghan.
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 Encyclopedia: John Rogers
John Rodgers (1812 - 1882), U.S. Naval officer during the Civil War, son of the first John Rodgers
John Rogers (1631 - 1684), educator; president of Harvard University
John Rogers (1723 - 1789, Congressional Congress delegate from Maryland in 1775
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 450th Anniversary of the Marian Martyrs
Another scholar, Miles Coverdale, was helping Tyndale with the translation and John Rogers joined them in the work by providing marginal notes and prefaces for the translation, and in the smuggling of the forbidden Bibles back into England.
After serving for many years as a pastor in Wittenberg, Germany, John Rogers returned to England during the reign of the godly King Edward and served as a divinity lecturer at St Paul's.
On the morning of February 4th 1555 he was awakened and told that he would be burnt at the stake that day.
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 John Rogers The Martyr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rogers was the first called upon to preach at St. Paul's Cross after Mary's arrival, as undoubted Queen, in London.
Now that the dust of bitter and mortal controversies has died down, it is possible if we look attentively, to see John Rogers in his true stature, as no one --not even Hooper himself--could have seen him before his death.
And like them he brings perennial encouragement to hard-pressed men and women of to-day and to-morrow in a world where the fires of different kind of persecution have been lit, and other martyrs are sealing their faith with their blood.
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 OSUL John Foxe Exhibition Catalog
John Fisher (1469-1535), bishop and saint, refused to acknowledge Henry VIII as the supreme head of the Church and was beheaded in 1535.
John Williams (?1500-1559) was made Baron Williams of Thame for promptly proclaiming Mary and as sheriff of Oxfordshire conveyed Latimer, Ridley, and Cramner to trial and witnessed their executions.
Certainly regarded as the most sensational of all the illustrations is that depicting the burning in 1556 of a mother, Perotine Massey of Guernsey, her two daughters, and the infant son to whom she gave birth in the flames at the stake.
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 Christian Heritage Ministries: Newsletters
Rogers was a Catholic priest who converted to protestantism in the 1530's under the influence of Willliam Tyndale and assisted in the publication of Tyndale's English translations of the Bible.
Two centuries after John Rogers' execution, his ordeal, with depictions of his wife and ten children added to increase the pathos, became a staple of the New England Primer.
Adjacent to Protestant martyr John Rogers' exhibits, was a portrait of Cotton Mather, described as "controversial" and "accused (unfairly) of instigating the Salem Witchcraft Trials." Underneath his description was a facsimile of one of Mather's draft sermons, in tiny calligraphy, framed, but illegible to the public.
www.christianheritagemins.org /newsletters/1998_fall_religion.htm   (1274 words)

  
 John Foxe's Book of Martyrs Book 10
Foxe celebrated John Rogers (1500-1555) as the first martyr of Mary's reign, registering a new phase of antichristian tyranny and resistance to it by God's chosen few.
Aston's urge to monumentalise Rogers can be understood, at least in part, as an aggressive response to Newman's activities on his own doorstep, but whilst some regional Protestant Associations were gathering strength, others were struggling to maintain their independent identity from other anti-Catholic organizations.
Aston's plan was to turn the Birmingham Protestant Association's John Rogers Memorial Library into a depository for all the editions of Foxe's Book, from its first edition to its most recent printing, and to create a space in which members of the Association could spend their leisure hours reading it.
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 WILLIAM TYNDALE (1484-1536), born one hundred years after the death of Wycliffe, recognized England’s need for the ...
In 1530 John Tyndale and his friend Thomas Patmore were arrested for distributing Scriptures, fined the large sum of 100 pounds each, and made to ride through London on horseback, facing backwards, with sheets of the New Testament sewn on their clothing.
The name of John Wycliffe was still fresh in the minds and hearts of his friends; neither was it forgotten by his enemies, for they still kept alive the fires of persecution so early kindled against his followers.
John Foxe, who was contemporary with Tyndale and who diligently interviewed people then living about the events we have described, drew this picture of the man: "First, he was a man very frugal, and spare of body, a great student, and earnest labourer in the setting forth of the Scriptures of God.
www.wayoflife.org /articles/williamtyndale.htm   (11773 words)

  
 JOHN ROGERS (1829-1904) - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN ROGERS (1829-1904)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
JOHN ROGERS (1829-1904) - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN ROGERS (1829-1904)
His subjects were familiar scenes and incidents of home life known to the masses, and the reproductions of his groups were sold in the most remote districts as well as in the larger cities.
He executed several life-sized statues, including " General John F. Reynolds " and a seated figure of Lincoln, both in Philadelphia; but it is by his statuettes that he is best remembered, and these were characterized by sentiment and human interest rather than any genuine artistic feeling.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROGERS_JOHN_1829_1904_.htm   (212 words)

  
 Teaching and Learning: American Religions to 1870: American Religions to 1870 Website Visuals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John Wesley received his education at Oxford University and was ordained a priest of the Church of England.
While John and his brother Charles were at Oxford, they were part of a group often called the Holy Club, whose members met regularly for Bible study, prayer, and self-examination.
Responding to a plea from Bishop John Ettwein (1721-1802), Congress voted that 10,000 acres on the Muskingum River in the present state of Ohio ‘be set apart and the property thereof be vested in the Moravian Brethren.
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 TimeLine03AD
John Wycliffe is expelled from Oxford University because of his opposition to traditional Church doctrines.
Czech students of John Wycliffe bring Wycliffism to the Bohemian capital of Prague.
John Hus travels to the Council of Constance to propose his reforms for the Church.
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 KJV-Gl-names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rogers, John (1500-1555) — Tyndale’s faithful assistant who incorporated his master’s "dungeon works" of Joshua through 2 Chronicles (translated while in prison) into his own translation under the pseudonym of Thomas Matthew.
Rogers was the first of Bloody Mary’s victims, being burned at the stake in the presence of his wife and eleven children.
With the financial backing of John T. Pirie, Scofield published his famous reference Bible in 1909, which is heavily slanted toward wrong doctrines.
www.pathlights.com /onlinebooks/KJV-HB/KJV-Gl-names.htm   (2608 words)

  
 History, Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles (1883), by Rev. Parker Pillsbury, Abolitionist Activist
Note: Rogers was an early writer on the unconstitutionality of slavery, as early as January 1837, an example thereafter followed by Smith (1840), Mellen (1841), Spooner (1845), Shaw (1846), James (1849), Tiffany (1849), Goodell (1852), Lincoln (1854), Douglass (1860), as per list cited infra, p 75).
Rogers were active and honored members in the Congregational church at Plymouth, when they espoused the cause of the slave.
But when they demanded that those in bonds in their own country should be remembered even "as bound with them," they were repulsed as disorderly, contumacious disturbers of the peace of the church and its minister, who, at that time, was among the most virulent opposers of the whole anti-slavery enterprise.
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 Translating the Bible, Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Although John Wycliffe had produced an English Bible in the late 1300s, that Bible was translated from the Latin rather than from the Hebrew and Greek.
He too was discovered by the inquisitors and burned to death on February 4, 1555.
Five years later, in 1555, Thomas Matthew was burned at the stake because he published an English Bible in 1537.
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John Calvin published the first edition of his work Institutes of the Christian Religion, destined to became one of the most influential works of Protestantism.
John Calvin led a theocratic Protestant government in Geneva, Switzerland.
John Knox published First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, deploring the authority of women.
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 THE AV 1611: Purified Seven Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John Wycliffe (c.1320-1384) is credited with being the first to translate the entire Bible into English.
Rogers used Tyndale's New Testament and the completed parts of his Old Testament.
It was here in 1557 that William Whittingham (1524-1579), the brother-in-law of John Calvin, and successor of John Knox at the English church in Geneva, translated the New Testament in what was to become the Geneva Bible.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John Rogers (c.1500 - 1555), first English Protestant martyr under Queen Mary
John Rogers (1627 - c.1665), Fifth monarchy man
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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 John Rodgers - TheBestLinks.com - John Rogers, Harvard University, Maryland, Mary I of England, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John Rodgers - TheBestLinks.com - John Rogers, Harvard University, Maryland, Mary I of England,...
John Rogers, John Rodgers, Harvard University, Maryland, Mary I of England...
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 ROGERS, JOHN (c. 1500-1555) - Online Information article about ROGERS, JOHN (c. 1500-1555)
Wittenberg for some years, Rogers returned to England in 1548, where he published a translation of See also:
Lollards, and on January 22nd, 1555, two days after they took effect, Rogers with ten others came before the council at See also:
February 1555 at Smithfield) cheerfully, though denied even an interview with his wife.
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 Singapore Bible Baptist Church - 5. The KJV's unmatched heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Though we have no evidence that King Henry VIII was ever converted, we do know that he was convinced by his Vicar General Thomas Cromwell to authorize the printing of the Matthew's Bible just months after the death of Tyndale.
This occurred in 1604, at the Hampton Court Conference, which was considering the Millennium Petition by the Puritans, calling for spiritual reform in the Church of England.
John Bois could read the whole Bible in Hebrew at age five.
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 Jacobus van Meteren - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He was also a/the(?) publisher of Matthew Bible of 1537, the combined work of William Tyndale, Coverdale and John Rogers.
In fact in Emanuel van Meteren's affidavit of 1609 he is referring to both the Coverdale Old Testament of 1535, when his father employed Myles Coverdale as translator, and the Matthew Bible of 1537, printed in Paris and London.
Rogers married J. van Meteren's niece, Adriana, the same year that the Matthew Bible was published.
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 John Rogers and the Matthew's Bible - Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)
In January 1554 Bonner, the new bishop of London, sent him to Newgate, where he lay with John Hooper, Laurence Saunders, John Bradford and others for a year, their petitions, whether for less rigorous treatment or for opportunity of stating their case, being alike disregarded.
John Roger's own work appears in a marginal commentary distributed through the Old and New Testaments and chiefly taken from Olivetan's French Bible of 1535.
The volume was printed in fl letter in double columns, and three copies are preserved in the British Museum.
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 How we got the Bible - Section 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The scribe was trying to correct a "discrepancy" between John and the other accounts of Jesus’ trial and crucifixion, failing to realize that John uses Roman time, while the other accounts use Jewish time and there is no contradiction.
It is in a footnote of RSV with a note that other ancient authorities place it there, at the end of John’s gospel, or after Lk 21:38.
English translation of the Psalms around 1320-40 by William of Shoreham and Richard Rolle is said to have planted the seed of a struggle to put the Bible in the hands of the common people.
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 Illinois Family History Research: Timeline for Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John Calvin establishes Reformed and Presbyterian form of Protestantism in Switzerland, writes Institutes of the Christian Religion.
John Hull grew wealthy through this process and became the subject of an apocryphal tale, which claims that the marriage of his daughter to Mr.
John Wesley , founder of the Methodist church, dies at age 88.
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