19. But yet it is his own revelation by which we must judge what is finally for our good or hurt; and we may not imagine that our shallow or deceivable wit is sufficient to discern without his Word what is best or worst for us: nor can we rationally argue from any present temporal adversity or unpleasing bitterness in the means, that ‘This is worst for us, and therefore it is not from the goodness of God;’ but we must argue in such cases, ‘This is from the goodness and love of God, and therefore