Of the COUNCIL of Lampsacus.
HYpatianus the Deputy of the Bishops of the Hellespont, desired a Council of the Emperours Valens * 1.1 and Valentinian. They appointed one at Lampsacus, where the Bishops assembled in the Year 365. After they had deliberated for the space of Two Months what they should do, they null'd all that had been done at Constantinople by the Intriguing of Eudoxius and Acacius. They declared that the Son of God was like in Substance to his Father, and adher'd to that Profession of Faith which was made in the Synod of Antioch, while the Dedication of the Church of that City was celebrated. They Ordain afterwards, That the Bishops depos'd by the Anomaeans, should re-enter into their Churches, from which they had been unjustly forced away, and they appointed them for Judges the Orthodox Bishops of their Province, and some of those that were nearest to it. They sent Deputies to Valens who was then at Heraclea; but they were not well receiv'd, because Eudoxius had prepossessed the Emperour, who Ordain'd, That the Churches should be given to those of his Party. He oblig'd also Eleusius of Cyzicum, in a Synod held in the Year 366, to agree with Eudoxius; but this Bishop re∣pented of it, and publickly testified the sorrow he had for being overcome by the Sollicitations of the Emperour.