Nehemiah was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 15 November 1602, and entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on 21 March 1612, and graduated M.A.

He was appointed assistant to Thomas Wood, the rector of St. Margaret's, Fish Street Hill, London, where he officiated until 13 May 1620.

Through the influence of the widow of Sir Charles Chiborn, serjeant-at-law, he was then appointed to the vicarage of Messing, Essex (Christian Curtesie, dedication).

Nehemiah Rogers, now a minister in Essex, and a man of good note’ (Works, Oxford, 1860, vii.

The vestry of St. Botolph's on 23 Feb. 1653 petitioned the Protector for liberty to the inhabitants to choose a minister in place of Rogers, but none appears to have been appointed.

Rogers had many influential friends, and he obtained leave to continue preaching in Essex during the Commonwealth, mainly through the efforts of Edward Herries of Great Baddow, to whom one of his works is dedicated.

A portrait of Nehemiah Rogers, engraved by Berningroth of Leipzig, with a German inscription, is mentioned by Colonel Chester.