And accordingly, if we renew nuptials which have been taken away, doubtless we strive against the will of God, willing to have over again a thing which He has not willed us to have. Thus, it is a volition of our own when we will what is evil, in antagonism to God's will, who wills what is good. Further, if you inquire whence comes that volition whereby we will anything in antagonism to the will of God, I shall say, It has its source in ourselves. For the devil did not impose upon him the volition to sin, but subministered material to the volition. He may will.
Indulgence is the source of all permission.
See what is the nature of a volition of which some second party is the cause. There is, again, a second species of pure volition to be considered. For, by showing what He more wills, He has effaced the lesser volition by the greater. Suffer me to have touched upon these considerations, in order that I may now follow the course of the apostle's words. Still, as in the former case, he has introduced the order of this discourse too from his personal suggestion, not from a divine precept.