Hallowed be your name

5. We must take special care that our profession is sincere and that we are as good as we profess to be. Otherwise:

a. Your profession will condemn you

b. It will dishonour the truth you deceitfully profess (Romans 2v3, 23-25)

6. Don’t let your profession be so much about your own sincerity as of God and his excellencies; and do it to God’s praise, not your own.

‘boast not of yourselves, but of God and Christ, and the promise, and the hope of true believers’

Notes on Baxter's Christian Directory, Part 3, Chapter 4 (p563)