false profession

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The heart must be probed to the very bottom, in order that no element of hypocrisy or false profession may be allowed to lodge there.

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Mackintosh, Charles Henry

But for the third degree, which is Simulation and false profession: that I hold more culpable and less politic, except it be in great and rare matters.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Of the malice of the devil, I knew nothing; of the misery of the world, I knew nothing whatsoever; and the false profession of people who are called spiritual was also unknown to me.

From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Magdeburg, Matilda of

Faith is more sincere when there are no motives for a false profession, and every natural motive to conceal religious belief.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

And she who had lived during her youth in ignorance of “the false profession of people called spiritual” had to learn amongst “the religious” many a sorrowful lesson.

From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Magdeburg, Matilda of