Rhaw Matthias was unnown to Sandius, Möller, and most others, who have written on the history of Antitrinitarianism  ; but is mentionned by Zeltner, and included in the list of Bock. He was a Transyvanian, and a native of Clausenburg ; and had been instructed, from a child, in the doctrines of Unitarianism. His friends induced him to go to the University of  Altorf, in the year 1614, for the purpose, as it is said, of propagating his religious opinions. His name was accordingly enrolled among the number of students in that University, on the 7^th of February in that year ; and he had no soonere arrived there ; than he began to seek a disposition favourable to the reception of them. He was deemed a peculiarly fit person to coöperate with Ruarus, in instructing them as to the mode of celebrating the Lord's Supper praticed among the Unitarians, since he had often been present at its celebration in his own country. Zeltner infers, that his object in going to Altorf was not to study, but merely to make proselytes, because, in the summer of the same year he accompanied Ruarus in Poland, after which he seems never to have returned into Germany. It is no improbable,  that he went from Poland into Transylvania. During his short stay at Altorf, he lodged with John Vogel, and was known by the name of Carcharias ; but why that name was given to him does not very clearly appear. Many years after this, he was officiating as the Minister of a Unitarian Church at Clausenburg, where he engaged in  a controversy with some of his brethrene, on the office and dignity of Christ, which threatened to be productive of serious consequences to the peace of the Church. To put a stop to this dispute, Jonas Schlichtingius was sent into Transylvania, by the Synod of Racow, in 1638 ; and it is not improbable that he succeded in accomplishing the object of his mission.

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