Meditations and Prayers - John Bradford (1510 -1555)
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00:00 Meditation on the Lord's Supper
09:28 A Brief Admonition Written by Master Bradford in a New Testament of a Friend of His
11:18 Prayer for the Presence of God
16:23 A Sweet Contemplation of Heaven and Heavenly Things
24:12 A Meditation of the Life Everlasting, the Place Where it Is, and the Incomparable Joys Thereof
32:51 Meditation of the Blessed State and Felicity of the Life to Come
39:48 Prayer for Deliverance from Trouble, Being a Godly Prayer Made by John Bradford
46:25 Prayer in the Time of Persecution
53:26 Paraphrase of Psalm 79
01:10:37 A Very Godly Prayer of One Standing at the Stake Ready to Be Burnt for Christ's Gospel's Sake
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Life
Bradford in prison with bishops, from Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Bradford was born in the village of Blackley, near Manchester in 1510. He was educated at a grammar school. Talented with numbers and money, he later served under Sir John Harington of Exton in Rutland as a servant. Through his good influence and abilities in auditing and writing, he gained favour and trust with his employer and at the Siege of Montreuil in 1544, occupied the office of paymaster of the English army during the wars of Henry VIII. Later, he became a law student at the Inner Temple in London. Through the contact and preachings of a fellow student, he became acquainted with and converted to the Protestant faith. This caused him to abandon his legal studies and in 1548, he took up theology at Catharine Hall (now St Catharine's College), University of Cambridge. In 1549 he was awarded his MA and in that same year was appointed to a fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Meditations and Prayers - John Bradford (1510 -1555)
Bradford Appeasing the Riot at St. Paul's Cross
At this institution he was often referred to with the nickname "Holy Bradford" not from malice but out of respect for his dedication to God and his
