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Parental Duties, Instruction Of Children: The Training Of Children

As Alexander the Great attained to have such a *puissant army, whereby he conquered the world, by having children born and brought up in his camp, whereby they became so well acquainted and exercised with weapons from their swaddling clothes, that they looked for no other wealth or country but to fight; even so, if thou wouldst have thy children either to do great matters, or to live honestly by their own virtuous endeavors, thou must acquaint them with painstaking in their youth, and so bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. --Cawdray

*Puissant means: mighty, powerful. For many, I fear, this word does not fit into the category of "words easy to be understood" which Paul advised Christians to use. --D. V. M.