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inhabitants, and has a high school. Old Sandee is a small 
place, about 6 miles farther north. 
SANDED, ad.]. Covered with sand; barren.—In well 
sanded lands little or no snow lies. Mortimer .—Marked 
with small spots ; variegated with dusky specks. Johnson .— 
Rather of a sandy colour, which is one of the true denote¬ 
ments of a blood-hound. Steevens. 
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind. 
So Sew’d, so sanded, and their heads are hung 
With ears that sweep away the morning dew. Shakspeare. 
Short-sighted. North. Grose. 
SA'NDEEL, s. A kind of eel commonly found at about 
half a foot deep under the sand, when the tide has run out. 
SANDEL BOSCH, or Sundana Island, an island in 
the Eastern seas, about 80 miles from east to west, and from 
15 to 36 in breadth. Lat. 9. 35. to 10. 15. S. long. 119. 33. 
■ to 120. E. 
SANDELWOOD ISLE, a large island in the Eastern seas, 
situated to the south of the island of Floris, about the 10th 
degree of north latitude. In length it may be estimated at 
100 miles, by 30 the average breadth ; but it has never been 
explored, and nothing is known respecting it, nor how it 
acquired its present name. 
SANDEMANIANS, a modern sect that originated in 
Scotland about the year 1728; where it is, at this time, dis¬ 
tinguished by the name of Glassites, after its founder, Mr. 
John Glass, who was a minister of the established church in 
that kingdom; but being charged with a design of subverting 
the national covenant, and sapping the foundation of all 
national establishments by the kirk judicatory, was expelled 
by the synod from the church of Scotland. His sentiments 
are fully explained in a tract published at that time, entitled, 
“ The Testimony of the King of Martyrs,” and preserved in 
the first volume of his works. In consequence of Mr. Glass’s 
expulsion, his adherents' formed themselves into churches, 
conformable in their institution and discipline to what they 
apprehended to be the plan of the first churches recorded in 
the New Testament. Soon after the year 1755, Mr. Robert 
Sandeman, an elder in one of these churches in Scotland, 
published a series of letters addressed to Mr. Hervey, occa¬ 
sioned by his Theron and Aspasio, in which he endeavours 
to shew, that his notion of faith is contradictory-to the scrip¬ 
ture account of it, and could only serve to lead men, pro¬ 
fessedly holding the doctrines commonly called Calvanistic, 
to establish their own righteousness upon their frames, in¬ 
ward feelings, and various acts of faith. In these letters, 
Mr. Sandeman attempts to prove, that faith is neither more 
nor less than a simple assent to the divine testimony con¬ 
cerning Jesus Christ, recorded in the New Testament; and 
he maintains, that the word faith, or belief, is constantly 
used by the apostles to signify what is denoted by it in com¬ 
mon discourse, viz. a persuasion of the truth of any propo¬ 
sition, and that there is no difference between believing any 
common testimony, and believing the apostolic testimony, 
except that which results from the nature of the testimony 
itself. This led the way to a controversy, among those who 
were called Calvinists, concerning the nature of justifying 
faith; and those who adopted Mr. Sandeman’s notion of it, 
and who took the denomination of Sandemanians, formed* 
themselves into church order, in strict fellowship with the 
churches of Scotland, but holding no kind of communion 
with other churches. The chief opinions and practices in 
which this sect differs from other Christians, are, their weekly 
'administration of the Lord’s Supper; their love feasts, of 
which every member is not only allowed but required to 
partake, and which consist of their dining together at each 
other’s houses in the interval between the morning and the 
afternoon service; their kiss of charity used on this occa¬ 
sion, at the admission of a new member, and at other times, 
when they deem it to he necessary or proper; their weekly 
collection before the Lord’s Supper for the support of the 
poor, and defraying other expenses; mutual exhortation; 
abstinence from blood and things strangled; washing each 
other’s feet, the precept concerning which, as well as other 
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precepts, they understand literally; community of goods so 
far as that every one is to consider all that he has in his pos¬ 
session and power as liable to the calls of the poof and 
church, and the unlawfulness of laying up treasures on earth, 
by setting them apart for any distant, future, and uncertain 
use. They allow of public and private diversions so far as 
they are not connected with circumstances really sinful; but 
apprehending a lot to be sacred, disapprove of playing at 
cards, dice, &c. They maintain a plurality of elders, pastors, 
or bishops, in each church, and the necessity of the presence 
of two elders in every act of discipline, and at the adminis¬ 
tration of the Lord’s Supper. In the choice of these elders, 
want of learning, and engagements in trade, See. are no suf¬ 
ficient objection ; but second marriages disqualify for the 
office; and they are ordained by prayer and fasting, impo¬ 
sition of hands, and giving the right hand of fellowship. In 
their discipline, they are strict and severe; and think them¬ 
selves obliged to separate from the communion and worship 
of all such religious societies as appear to them not to profess 
the simple truth for their only ground of hope, and who do 
not walk in obedience to it. We shall only add, that in 
every church transaction, they esteem unanimity to be abso¬ 
lutely necessary. The sect is nearly, if not quite, extinct. 
SANDEND, a small village of Scotland, in Banffshire, 
about 4 miles from the town of Portsoy. 
SANDERAY, a small island of the Hebrides, in the 
district of Barray, annexed to the county of Inverness. It 
is about 5 miles distant from Barray, is 2 miles long and 2 
broad, and contains about 9 families, or 50 inhabitants. 
There is a very large Danish dun on the east coast of the 
island. Lat. 56. 52. N. long. 7. 30. W. 
SA'NDERLING, s. A bird.—We reckon coots, san- 
derlings, pewets, and mews. Carew. —See Ciiaradicus 
Caladris. 
SANDER.ROCEL, Cape, a promontory on the south¬ 
west coast of Majorca. Lat. 39. 27. N. long. 2. 40. E. 
SA'NDERS, s. [santalnm , Lat.] A precious kind of In¬ 
dian wood, of which there are three sorts, red, yellow, and 
green. Hailey, and Dr. Johnson. Sir Thomas Herbert 
mentions a white kind. Isles — rich in stones, and spices, 
and white sanders. Sir T. Herbert. 
SANDERS (Nicholas), an English Catholic priest, who 
published, in 1571, his treatise “ De Visibili Monarchia 
Ecclesiae, &c.” in which he contends for the superiority of 
the popes over general councils, and endeavours to maintain 
the highest pretensions of the Roman see. By Gregory XIII. 
Sanders was sent to Spain on a mission, and from this coun¬ 
try he was induced, by the warmth of his zeal for the popish 
cause, to undertake a kind of military mission into Ireland, 
with the design of encouraging the Catholics who had taken 
up arms against queen Elizabeth. Government was too 
firmly fixed to be shaken by their efforts, and Sanders had 
the mortification to be a witness of their ill success and ruin. 
He was author of a work, entitled “ De Origine ac Progressu 
Schismatis Anglicani, Lib. iii.” which was published in 1585, 
at Cologne, and has been frequently reprinted in Catholic 
countries. He also wrote “ De Clave David, seu regno 
Christi;” “ De Martyrio quomndam tempore Hen. VIII. et 
Eliz.;” “ The Life and Manners of the Heretic Thomas 
Cranmer;” and some controversial pieces. 
SANDERSLEBEN, a small town of Upper Saxony, in 
the duchy of Anhalt Dessau, on the Wipper. Population 
1600; 18 miles south-east of Quedlinburg. 
SANDERSON (Robert), a learned English prelate, was 
bom at Rotherham, in Yorkshire, in the year 1587. He 
was educated in the grammar-school of his native town, 
where he discovered considerable talents, and an uncommon 
share of diligence. In his 13th year he was sent to Oxford. 
Here he generally devoted eleven hours a day to close study, 
by which means he was enabled, at an early period of life, 
to go through a whole course of philosophy, and to obtain 
a most accurate and intimate acquaintance with all the most 
celebrated classical authors. 
In the year 1625, Mr. Sanderson was chosen one of the 
clerks in convocation for the diocese of Lincoln; as he was 
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