Bradish, Luther, president of the American Bible Society, was born at Cummington, Mass., in 1783, graduated at Williams College in 1804, and was short- ly afterward admitted to the New York bar. He! served as a volunteer in the war of 1812. In 1820 he rendered very efficient aid to the government in the negotiation of the treaty with Turkey. For the pur- pose of acquiring information for the government pre- paratory to this negotiation, he travelled through the greater portion of the dominions of the sultan. Short- ly after his return to this country, after an absence of six years, he was honored with a seat in the State Legislature, and again in 1835. In 1838 he -was Speaker of the Assembly, and in the same year was chosen lieutenant governor of the state, and again in 1840. In 1842 he was the Whig candidate for gov- ernor, but failed of election. During the administra- tion of president Fillmore Mr. Bradish received the appointment of United States assistant treasurer for New York. From that time he took no active part in political life, but devoted his ample leisure to literary and benevolent institutions. In 1844 he was elected
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first vice-president of the New York Historical Society, and on the death of Mr. Gallatin in 1849, was elected president. He was chosen vice-president of the Amer- ican Bible Society in 1847, and succeeded to the pres- idency of that institution on the death of Mr. Freling- huysen in 1861. He died at Newport 6n August 20, 1863. He was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Bradley, Joshua, a Baptist minister, was born in Randolph, Mass., July 5, 1773. He joined the Bap- tist Church in 1790, was graduated at Brown Univer- sity in 1799, and was ordained associate pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Newport in 1801. In 1807 lie removed to Mansfield, Conn., and two years later opened an academy in Wallingford, in the same state. Mr. Bradley removed in 1813 to Windsor, Vt., and thence in succession to various places in the states of N. Y., Ohio, Penn., 111., Mo., Ky., Ind., Va., and Min- nesota, preaching, teaching, and establishing semina- ries, colleges, and churches, which course he continued till his death in 1855, at St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Bradley was the author of two small volumes on "Revivals" and "Free-masonry," besides various pamphlets. — Sprague, Annals, vi, 400.
Bradshaw, William, a distinguished Puritan di- vine, was born in 1571, became minister of Chatham, Kent, in 1G01, subsequently lecturer of Christ Church, London, and died in 1618. His work on English Puri- tanism (Bond. 1605) is valuable as showing the differ- ence between the principles of the ancient and modern Nonconformists. He also wrote, besides other works, a Treatise of Justification (Lond. 1615 ; in Lat., Leyd. 1618, 12mo; Oxf. 1658, 8vo).
Bradwardine, Thomas, denominated doctor pro- fundus, an eminent English scholastic divine, was born at Hartfield, in Cheshire, in 1290, and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He was the confessor of Edward III, and attended him to France. In 1319 he was made archbishop of Canterbury, but died six weeks subsequently. Bradwardine was scarcely less eminent as a mathematician than as a theologian. His treatise De Causa Dei adrersus Pelagium (Lond. 1618, fol.) is a connected series of reasonings, in strict- \y mathematical form, in favor of Augustinism. " He places the whole and each part of the universe under an unconditional necessity. Every tiling which hap- pens is a necessary fulfilment of the divine plan of the universe. The divine will is the efficient cause, to which every thing else is alike subservient; even the actions of rational beings are not exempt from this universal law. Hence he impugns the distinction of a divine will and a divine permission in reference to evil, and endeavors to show that even this forms a nec- essary part of the divine plan, but that moral imputa- tion is not thereby nullified, since evil subjectively contradicts the will of God. He strives to set aside all the subterfuges of his opponents for vindicating any meritum whatever, even a merdtum de congrno; he even opposes those who admitted a. gratia praw niens, and only maintained that it depended on the recep- tivity of man to accept it or not. From this system it strictly followed that the independence and contin- gency of the free will are only a semblance ; and, since this applies to the fall, supralapsarianism would be in- volved in it." Bradwardine has been regarded by some writers as a precursor of the Reformation. His doctrine of the will is nearly identical with that of Jonathan Edwards. — Mosheini, Keel. Hist, ii, 365; Cave, Hist. Lit. A.D. 1348 ; Collier, Eccl. Hist, iii, 109 ; Meander, Hist, of Dogmas, p. 609.
Brady, Nicolas, D.D., an English divine, was born Oct. 28th, 1659, at Ban. Ion, Ireland. Ho gradu- ated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was appointed chaplain to Bishop Wettenhall, by whose patronage he obtained a prebend in the Cathedral of Cork. On the establishment of William and Mary, he was de-
puted to present to the English Parliament a petition for redress of grievances ; and, remaining in London, he became minister of the church of St. Catharine Cree, and lecturer of St. Michael's, in Wood Street. He died May 20, 1726, the same year in which he pub- lished by subscription his Translation of the JEnad of Virgil (4 vols. 8vo), which is now almost entirely un- known. But the reputation of Dr. Brady rests solely upon his share in the Metrical Version of the Psalms, known as Tate and Brady's, of the merits or demerits of which every one who possesses an English Prayer- book may judge for himself.