Albinus Matthias

Albinus Matthias , (or Albin,) Minister at Ivanovitze, acknowledged the Supremacy of the Father, and denied the preexistence of Christ, but differed from many of the Pinczovians on the subject of Paedobaptism, and united with Czechovicius and others in discountenancing the practice of baptizing infants. It has been said that he was the first among the Polish Protestants, who administered baptism by immersion. At the Synod of Skrzynna, in 1567, he was associated with Gregory Pauli, George Schomann, and others, as an opponent of the Arian party. The Rev. R. Robinson, in his "Ecclesiastical Researches," says, that Art.12-14:.'] D. BIELINSCIUS. J. PHILIPOVIUS. 239

Matthias Albinus continued a Trinitarian till his death ; but Bock has included him in his supplementary list of Antitrinitarians, and Sandius, from the connexion in which he mentions him, evidently regarded him as a Humanitarian.