A Sweet Meditation: A poem on the benefit of reading, conference, musing on holy things, and prayer: containing a complaint that these holy exercises are neglected for that which is worse than nothing, even men’s sinful will

Richard Rogers (1551-1618), in his continual walking with God was ‘the Enoch of his age,’ according to his esteemed puritan grandson, William Jenkyn. Rogers was an early, partially conforming, organizing Presbyterian and Cambridge scholar. The godly saints that followed in his direction became known as ‘precisionists’, according to the famed anecdote when someone remarked to Rogers: ‘I like you and your company very well, only you are too precise.’ Rogers replied, ‘Oh, sir, I serve a very precise God.’ Rogers today is best known for his magnum opus Commentary on the Book of Judges, which has been published in facsimile form by the Banner of Truth.