In 1726 he became chaplain in ordinary to the future King George II, then Prince of Wales, and about the same time left London with the intention of spending the remainder of his life at Wrington.
His funeral sermon was preached by Nathaniel Marshall, and was the occasion of Some Remarks, by "Philalethes" (Arthur Ashley Sykes).
Rogers gained a reputation in the Bangorian controversy, while he joined with Francis Hare in the attack on Benjamin Hoadly.
In 1727 he published a volume of eight sermons, The Necessity of Divine Revelation and the Truth of the Christian Religion, to which was prefixed a preface containing a criticism of the Literal Scheme of Prophecy considered, by Anthony Collins, the deist.
Samuel Chandler, bishop of Lichfield, included remarks on the preface in his Conduct of the Modern Deists, and Collins wrote A Letter to Dr. Rogers, on occasion of his Eight Sermons.
This work prompted Some Short Reflections, by Thomas Chubb, 1728, and a preface in Chandler's History of Persecution, 1736.
Rogers well acquainted with the writings of Richard Hooker and John Norris.