By the Reverend John Wilson of the Church of Boston

The Church consenting to it, we will now proceed to excommunication.

Forasmuch as you, Mistress Hutchinson, have highly transgressed and offended, and forasmuch as you have so many ways troubled the church with your errors, and have drawn away many a poor soul, and have upheld your revelations, and forasmuch as you have made a lie.  Therefore, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the name of the church, I do not only pronounce you worthy to be cast out, but I do cast you out1 And in the name of Christ,I do deliver you up to Satan that you may learn no more to blaspheme, to seduce, and to lie!  And I do account you from this time forth to be a heathen and a publican and so to be held of all the brethren and sisters of the congregation  and of others.  Therefore, I command you in the name of Christ Jesus and of this church as a leper to withdraw yourself out of the congregation! That as formerly you have despised and condemned the holy ordinances of God and turned your back on them, so you may now have no part in them nor benefit from them!

Response to Order of Excommunication by Anne Hutchinson

Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Jesus Christ.

(March 22, 1638)