102. 1471 г. марта 22. Его же грамота Новгородцам с убеждением покориться великому князю и не изменять православию чрез союз с Латинами

From the collection of Count A.S. Uvarov No. 512 (formerly Tsarskogo No. 366), l. 255 rev.–264; was published, according to the same list, in the first volume of Historical Acts under No. 281. Another certificate went with Gennady, in the summer of 79, March 22 Blessing of Philip, Metropolitan of All Rus', in the lord and son of my blessed and pious Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich of All Rus' from his fatherland, to Veliky Novgorod, in the Holy Spirit to the son of our humility, Hieromonk Theophilus, named for the dominion of that archdiocese of our great metropolis, and to the archimandrites and most honorable abbots, and all seven councils, priests of the entire Novgorod land, also the staid mayor and the old posadniks, and the staid thousand and old thousand, and merchants, and blacks, and all the Lord's people named after Christ, all of Orthodox Christianity, abiding in piety, all the great and small, and all of Veliky Novgorod, free husbands. You know, sons, and from the holy scriptures you understand well about these, how in the beginning we received holy baptism and the faith of Orthodoxy from the divinely crowned Grand Duke Vladimir, who is in us and equal to the Apostles, and we remain in the same piety and motionless until God commands; and our great holy cathedral church of 2900 Orthodoxy, preserved by God, like the sun shining with piety in all Russian lands, our true great Orthodoxy, the fatherland of my lord and son, Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich of All Rus', your lord, father and grandfather; and you, his fatherland, the land of Novgorod, free men, for so many years from his ancestors, and from his great-grandfather, and from his grandfather, and from his father, from all the great Russian princes, from antiquity, and 2901 from himself, from your master from the Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich, you were persistent in no way, in any deeds, and to this day; and my lord and son, the Great Prince Ivan Vasilyevich of All Rus', you, his fatherland, Veliky Novgorod, also favored you, like his great-grandfathers and grandfathers and his father the Great Prince: as he advertised, so he favored you and in the old days he kept you until the end. And you, my son, my son the great prince told me, as they said to my lord and son the great prince, and naturally kissed the cross, that you should uphold his name honestly and formidably, and do not interfere with the lands and waters of it and tolls: and you, after that end, committed many inconsistencies before my lord and son, before the great prince. And my lord and son, the Great Prince Ivan Vasilyevich, sent his ambassadors many times to you, to his fatherland, so that this would be corrected before him; and you again sent your ambassador Vasily Ananyin to him. And my lord and son, the great prince, hoped that Vasily was sent to beat with his forehead, with right petitions and corrections; and Vasily Ananyin did not say a word about your non-correction, nor did he make a petition about it, but the rumor was: “Veliky Novgorod did not order me about this.” And it pained my lord and my son the Grand Duke that he had forgotten everything about his work and his failure to correct himself, but I ordered [the same] about my own affairs; Yes, for this my lord and son, the great prince, was angry with you, with his fatherland, and wanted everything on the horse, and ordered to you with Vasily and Ananyin: “My fatherland, Veliky Novgorod, will teach me to beat my forehead, and they will learn to rule over me about everything, and I hold my fatherland in the old days.” And then again his pilgrim, and my son, who was formerly Vladika Jonah, your father. God took: and you sent to my lord and son, to the Grand Duke, and to me, to beat your boyar Mikita Savin with his forehead, asking for dangerous letters, so that you, Theophilus, who was appointed to rule, would come to the house of the Holy Mother of God and to my lord and son to the Grand Duke, and to me, to his father, to the Metropolitan; and I would be sad about you, so that my lord and son, the great prince, would order me, the metropolitan, to put you in the lordship, as a pilgrim, and to Veliky Novgorod and Pskov as a father, and in a white hood, and to leave voluntarily, and whoever goes with you would also come and leave voluntarily. And my lord and son, the great prince, granted mine for prayer and petition, and for his mother, the Grand Duchess, dismounted from his horse, and granted his dangerous letter, and I also gave my dangerous letter, such as they beat with their foreheads. You began to prolong this great work of God in the church, and the rumor came to me that your dashing deeds taught themselves to put inappropriate thoughts and incredibleness into their hearts: and I did not believe it, but sent you my letter with Turgen, with my boyar son, describing everything about it and with teaching; you, from those places to this place, laid down that great work of God, church and zemstvo, but did not go to my master and son, to the Grand Duke and to me, according to those dangerous letters. And now it is heard in your children, in Novgorodians, and in many of your young people who have not yet learned in the good old days to stand and fight in piety, and others who did not know the good punishment of their fathers, pious parents, but in their bellies they remained, due to sin, unpunished 2902, how to live in piety: and even today those actions are senseless, hoarding in the hosts, let them be sharpened by many aspirations and on the great unrest and silence of the earth, wanting to introduce great rebellion and schism in the holy Church of God, and leaving Orthodoxy and the great antiquity and approaching the Latins. But you, my son, will not tell or describe this, with your archimandrites and all the priests, to my son, that is, the church government of our flock and our hierarchal care. And you, sons, Orthodox old posadniks of Novgorod and thousands, and boyars, and merchants, and the whole of Veliky Novgorod, living in Orthodoxy, take care of that yourself, and show off the old and young, and make the dashing ones revolt from an evil undertaking, so that just as you did not have Latins to praise the faith of Orthodox people: zenez, sons, that is, an evil undertaking, It is a charming and godly thing to leave the light of piety, but to join in the darkness of Latin charm, as if not anticipating the future judgment of God from God, below and guarded against many eternal torments, but so be rude to God’s holy catholic church, and repair and do 2903 through the mind of God and his saved commandments. And you should fear God’s wrath and his terrible sickle, seen by the great Zechariah the Prophet, descending from heaven on the disobedient sons, and punish those who commit atrocities, strife and temptations: they flatter the hearts of the kindly, and among the peaceful they introduce untruths and the madmen carry out pure rage; and you yourself punish them in all the good old ways, to walk the path of their fathers and live in the same piety and silence. Many painful and unquenchable people face such an undertaking, to leave the new law of piety and from the hand of the Lord God Almighty on those apostates who are beginning to introduce the godly heresy of the ancient heretics of Karulov into the great piety of your lands, furthermore, Formos, who followed them, the Pope of Rome, in these heresies of Latin, and all their popes remain even today, holding the Holy Trinity with tetrarchy, saying not only that the Spirit taken away from the Father proceeds, but also the Spirit from the Son, as servile of the Holy Spirit they say; and they serve unleavened bread, and they keep and fast on the Sabbath, like the Jews, and sprinkle water on all days, in the same Jewish custom. And having searched for other Latin heresies and in the holy books, you will find many great heresies of them; I did not write to you that more extensively, for the sake of a lot of speech, which is why I should write about these. And you will make the young people feel bad about it, but do not indulge them, the evil undertaking, according to the saying: “flee sin, like a warrior, flee from delusion, like from the face of a serpent, so that the sting of endless destruction does not sting your soul.” For you yourself know how in former times, many kingdoms of great lands and many cities, crimes for the sake of the law and disobedience, for the sake of the holy Prophets and Apostles and the holy Fathers, who did not listen to the teachings, fell into much destruction and desolation; and the unsubdued lands and cities were destroyed and destroyed by the rulers of God. And now, in our years, you yourself know how the great city of Constantinople, which formerly reigned in piety, was possessed by the filthy Turks: was it not for the same sake of Latin charm that it perished and was destroyed from great piety, the hedgehog king and patriarch were deceived by the Latins, and in the same temptation they fell, and the eighth of their God-denying gathering was sought, and for the sake of piety did you retreat from gold and venerate the Latins, followed by Isidore, the apostate Metropolitan, and Gregory, his disciple, who now lives in Lithuania? And you, the son of Theophilus, named to rule, and you archimandrites and the most honorable abbots and priests of all seven councils, your spiritual children, from great to small, punish everyone with spiritual teaching, strengthening them in the faith of Orthodoxy, protecting their only begotten and immortal souls from the snares of the catcher, the many-headed serpent of the devil, lest they fall into the stroma covered by these deep pits of demons, they will not get bogged down in the nets of the evil one, by the seduction of Latin heresies, but will remain in their true Christian faith and live in the law of their fathers, in the great piety of the Holy Church and will be counted among the faithful and Orthodox of their parents, and not the charms of Latin with non-believers, lower apostates. 2904 Such, sons, is deception to the destruction of souls, joy to the enemy the devil, and the last abomination and endless rudeness to God; For this reason, Christ our Savior Himself is true, commanding us, saying: “Shepherds, keep watch over the flock of my sheep, so that they do not go astray on the mountains and in the oak trees, and so that not a single one perish from them,” which is our exaction and care for the souls of lost sinful people. And you, sons, all Orthodox people of Novgorod, do not approach the Latin charms, nor introduce them into your Orthodoxy, but let yourself know: neither is there one in you, nor the bottom of the delusion, wanting to deviate from the truth and from the right path to get lost, but forgetting your great antiquity and the law of your fathers, and even your grandfathers and great-grandfathers - but your countless multitude of people, the souls of Orthodox people. For this reason, I am writing to you, fearing the condemnation of this lazy slave, who hid his talent into the ground, and did not make an attack on it, lest God take away from us the deep sins for laziness of non-punishment. And you, sons, humble yourself under the strong hand of the faithful and pious sovereign of the Russian lands, under your master under the Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich of All Rus', according to the great old days of your father and grandfather, according to what was said by Paul the Apostle of Christ, the ecumenical teacher: “everyone who obeys the power of God obeys the command, but he who resists the power of God resists the command." And for this sake, humble yourself, and do not put off this great work of God and church and earthly affairs, and the holy church of God would not become a widow without a shepherd; and according to the divine rules of the holy Apostles and holy Fathers, the holy church of God cannot be without a shepherd and a teacher for more than two months: and you understand about these things, and may the God of peace be with you. To this end, I would have written to you at greater length from the divine holy scriptures, but we know that by the grace given to you from God in the font of holy baptism, book wisdom, you yourself are naturally intelligent; but from these, the flock given to us by God, we write to you, for your own spiritual benefit. And the mercy of God and His Most Pure Mother of God is upon you, and our humility is a blessing. And it was written in Moscow, the month of March, in the summer of 1979. In a manuscript it’s too much to write here. In the manuscript of an apostate. See above, pp. 425–426, note. 1. You might be interested in: