The Bishops of _Gaul_ assembled at _Paris_ in 362. and, having first owned their Crime, in approving and signing the Confession of _Rimini_, they acknowleged the Three Persons of the Trinity to be of the same Nature and Substance, and condemned _Ursacius_, _Valens_, and _Auxentius_ the _Arian_ Bishop of _Milan_. This Council was convened by St. _Hilarius_, Bishop of _Poitiers_; and a Letter, which the Council writ on this Occasion, has been transmitted to us, among the Fragments of his Works. He is said to have assembled several other Councils in _Gaul_, for the re-establishing of the Faith of _Nice_, which is all we know of them. The same Year 362. the Bishops of _Italy_ assembling, declared void and null the Acts of the Council of _Rimini_, embraced the Faith of _Nice_, and, with one Accord, anathematized _Ursacius_ and _Valens_, as the leading Men of the _Arian_ Party. There is, among the Fragments of St. _Hilarius_, a Letter on this Subject, from the _Italian_ to the _Illyrian_ Bishops. Where this Council was held I find no-where recorded. In the Year 363. the Emperor _Jovian_ desiring to be instructed in the Faith of the Catholic Church, by _Athanasius_ and the _Egyptian_ Bishops, who were come to wait on him, they assembled in Council, and agreed to propose no other Creed to him but that of _Nice_. At the same time they condemned the Heresy of _Macedonius_, denying the Divinity of the Holy Ghost. This Council is generally thought to have been held at _Alexandria_. But, from the Letter, which they presented to the Emperor, it appears to have consisted of some _Egyptian_ Bishops, who, as it is there said, were appointed to represent all the others of the same Province[N19.1]. Had the Council been held at _Alexandria_, they had, I should think, been all present. It must therefore have assembled in some Place out of _Egypt_; and where more likely than at _Antioch_? For there the Emperor was this very Year, and there _Athanasius_ waited on him. The same Year another Council was held at _Antioch_, under _Melecius_ Bishop of that City. In that Council _Acacius_, Bishop of _Cæsarea_ in _Pælestine_, who had been at the Head of the _Arian_ Party, in the Latter-end of the Reign of _Constantius_, and his Followers, commonly styled _Acacians_, embraced the Faith of _Nice_, and admitted the Term _Consubstantial_. _Acacius_ had no other Faith but that of the Party which prevailed. Hence, in the Time of _Jovian_, who favoured the Orthodox Party, he professed the Faith of _Nice_; but Two Years after he had signed it, he joined the _Arians_ anew, seeing them in great Favour with the Emperor _Valens_. Several other Councils were held, from the Year 363. to 368. of which we have no particular Account. For _Athanasius_ tells us, in general Terms, that many Councils assembled in _France_, in _Spain_, at _Rome_, in _Dalmatia_, in _Dardania_, in _Macedonia_, in _Epirus_, in _Greece_, in _Candia_, and the other Islands, in _Sicily_, in _Cyprus_, in _Lycia_, in _Isauria_, in _Egypt_, and in _Arabia_; and that they all met to maintain the Orthodox Faith, the Faith of the Council of _Nice_[N19.2]. In his Letter to the Emperor _Jovian_ he assures him, that the Symbol of _Nice_ was received in the above-mentioned Provinces, and besides, in _Britain_, in _Africa_, in _Pamphylia_, in _Libya_, in _Pontus_, in _Cappadocia_, and in the East, that is, in the Patriarchate of _Antioch_[N19.3]. But in the Provinces of _Thrace_, of _Bithynia_, and the _Hellespont_, the _Semi-Arians_ prevailed, till they were overpowered by the _Arians_, strongly supported by the Emperor _Valens_, a most zealous Defender of _Arianism_.