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ment and mortification of the court. During the same year, 
the archbishop, in the circular letter which he sent to the 
clergy of his diocese, exhorted them to cultivate a good cor¬ 
respondence with the Protestant dissenters, and he endea¬ 
voured to promote a plan which might, he thought, induce 
them to join the national church. In the autumn, when 
James had received intelligence of the designs of the Prince 
of Orange, to bring an army into England in support of the 
liberties of the people, he sent for archbishop Sancroft, and 
the other bishops who were in London, to ask their advice 
in that emergency ; these plainly told him, that he must in¬ 
stantly shew a disposition to a complete change in the mea¬ 
sures of government, by redressing the grievances of the 
nation, and by calling a free and regular parliament. The 
king was, however, still obstinate, and in a few days he 
sent for the archbishop, desiring him to sign a declaration 
of abhorrence of the Prince of Orange’s undertaking, which, 
however, he declined, and on the withdrawing-of the sove¬ 
reign, Dr. Sancroft concurred with the lords spiritual and 
temporal, who assembled at Guildhall, On the 11th of De¬ 
cember, in signing a declaration to the Prince of Orange 
for a free parliament, the security of the laws, liberties, and 
properties of the people, and a due indulgence to Protestant 
dissenters. Archbishop Sancroft had thus far given his 
countenance and support to the measures necessary for op¬ 
posing the steps taken by James to establish arbitrary power 
and the Popish religion; but when the church was secure, he 
seems to have been alarmed at the part which he had taken, 
and resolved to wait the consequences in inactivity and silence. 
For this behaviour, he is condemned by Burnet, who deno¬ 
minates him “ a poor-spirited and fearful man, who acted a 
very mean part in all this great transaction.” His conduct 
certainly justifies the opprobrium of the historian; but 
Burnet can scarcely be thought an impartial writer, as San¬ 
croft had refused to consecrate him, because he had been so 
zealous in behalf of the revolution. 
After the convention had declared the throne vacant, and 
the government was settled upon King William, Sancroft 
refused submission to the new settlement of the crown. Ac¬ 
cordingly, after the convention had been converted into a 
parliament, the archbishop declined coming to the House, 
and his example was followed by seven other prelates, and 
he was soon after turned out. 
Besides some indifferent sermons, the other publications 
of Dr. Sancroft consist of a Latin dialogue, composed partly 
by himself, and partly by two friends, entitled, “ Fur Prse- 
destinatus, sive, Dialogismus inter quendam Ordinis Preedi- 
cantium Calvinistam et Furem ad Laqueum damnatum 
Habitus“ Modern Politics taken from Machiavel, Bor¬ 
gia,” &c.; “ Familiar Letters.” His collections in MS. were 
purchased by bishop Tanner, and presented to the Bodleian 
library. 
2 'o SA'NCTIFICATE, v. a. [low Lat. santficol] To 
sanctify. Not in use. —-The Holy Ghost smctificating. 
Barrow. 
SANCTIFICA'TION, s. [from sanctifleo, low Latin.] 
The state of being freed, or act of freeing from the dominion 
of sin for the time to come.—The grace of his sanctification 
and life, which was first received in him, might pass from 
him to his whole race, as malediction came from Adam 
unto all mankind. Hooker. —The act of making holy; con-, 
secration.—’The bishop kneels before the cross, and devoutly 
adores and kisses it: after this follows a long prayer for the 
sanctification of that new sign of the cross. Stilling fleet. 
SANCTIFIER, s. He that sanctifies or makes holy.— 
To be the sanctifier of a people, and to be their God, is all 
one. Derham. 
To SA'NCTIFY, ». a. [sanctfico , Lat.] To free from 
the power of sin for the time to come.—For if the blood of 
bulls, sprinkling the unclean, sanctificth to the purifying of 
the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ ? Heb. 
—-To make holy.—What actions can express the intire purity 
of thought, which refines and sanctifies a virtuous man. 
Addison. —To make a means of holiness.—Those judgments 
God hath been pleased to send upon me, are so much the 
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more welcome, as a means which his mercy hath sanctified 
so to me as to make me repent of that unjust act. King 
Charles. —To make free from guilt. 
The holy man, amaz’d at what he saw. 
Made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. Cry den. 
To secure from violation.—Truth guards the poet, sancti¬ 
fies the line. Hope. 
SANCTIMO'NIOUS, adj. [from sanctimonia, Latin.] 
Saintly; having the appearance of sanctity.—All sancti¬ 
monious ceremonies. Shalcspeare. 
SANCTIMONIOUSLY, adv. With sanctimony. 
Ye know, dear lady, since ye are mine. 
How truly I have lov’d you, how sanctimoniously 
Observ’d your honour! Beaum. and FI. 
SANCTIMONIOUSNESS, s. State or quality of being 
sanctimonious. Ash. 
SANCTIMONY, s. [sanctimonia, Lat.] Holiness; scru¬ 
pulous austerity; appearance of holiness.—If sanctimony, 
and a frail vow between an errant Barbarian and a super- 
subtle Venetian, be not too hard for my wit, and all the tribe 
of hell, thou shalt enjoy her. Shalcspeare. —There was 
great reason why all discreet princes should beware of 
yielding hasty belief to the robes of sanctimony. Raleigh. 
SANCTION, s. [sanction , Fr. sanctio, Lat.— “Sanction 
is essential to contracts; which, among the ancients, was 
done by killing a sacrifice.—We read in Tacitus, Suetonius, 
Plutarch, and others, of leagues sealed by drinking of blood. 
So Servius, the grammarian, will have sanctio to come a 
sanguine." Bp. Reynolds, Serm. 1668. p. 17.] The act 
of confirmation which gives to any thing its obligatory 
power;, ratification. 
Against the publick sanctions of the peace, 
With fates averse, the rout in arms resort, 
To force their monarch. Dry den. 
A law; a decree ratified. Improper. 
’Tis the first sanction nature gave to man, 
Each other to assist in what they can. Denham. 
To SANCTION, ». a. To give a sanction to.—Tests 
against old principles, sanctioned by the laws. Burke. 
SA'NCTITUDE, s. [from sanctus, Lat.] Holiness; good¬ 
ness ; saintliness. 
In their looks divine 
The image of their glorious Maker shone, 
Truth, wisdom, sanctitude, serene and pure. Milton. 
SANCTITY, s. [sanctitus, Lat.] Holiness ; the state of 
being holy. 
At his touch, 
Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand. 
They presently amend. Shalcspeare. 
Goodness; the quality of being good; purity; godliness. 
This youth 
I reliev'd with such sanctity of love, 
And to his image, which methought did promise 
Most venerable worth, did I devotion. Shakspeare. 
Saint; holy being. 
About him all the sanctities of heaven 
Stood thick as stars, and from his sight received 
Beatitude past utterance. Milton. 
SANCTUS (Jasper), commonly denominated Sanchez, 
a learned commentator on the scriptures in the 16th and 17th 
centuries. 
SANCTON, a parish of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 3 miles south-east of Market Weighton. 
SANCTORIUS (Sanctorius),an ingenious physician, who 
greatly distinguished himself by his experiments on the insen¬ 
sible perspiration, was born in the year 1561, at Capo d’Istria, 
a town on the borders of the gulf of Trieste. He studied me¬ 
dicine at Padua, where he received the degree of doctor of phy¬ 
sic, and then went to Venice, where he settled, and entered 
into the practice of his profession with considerable success. In 
