In another place, this same author thus exalts Mary: 

“Since the Virgin Mary is mother of God, and God is her Son; and every son is naturally inferior to his {374} mother, and subject to her; and the mother is preferred above, and is superior to her son, it follows that the blessed Virgin is herself superior to God, and God himself is her subject, by reason of the humanity derived from her;” [Part ix.  Serm. ii. p. 605.] and again.  “O the unspeakable dignity of Mary, who was worthy to command the Commander of all.” [Part xii.  Serm, ii. p. 816.]

I will detain you by only one more quotation from this famed Doctor.  It appears to rob God of his justice and power, as well as of his mercy; and to turn our eyes to Mary for the enjoyment of all we can desire, and for safety from all we can dread.  Would that Bernardine stood alone in the propagation of such doctrines.  “We may say, that the blessed Virgin is chancellor in the court of heaven.  For we see, that in the chancery of our lord the pope, three kinds of letters are granted:  some are of simple justice, others are of pure grace, and the third mixed, containing justice and grace....  The third chancellor is he to whom it appertains to give letters of pure grace and mercy.  And this office hath the blessed Virgin; and therefore she is called the mother of grace and mercy:  but those letters of mercy she gives only in the present life.  For, to some souls, as they are departing, she gives letters of pure grace; to others, of simple justice; and to others, mixed, namely, of justice and grace.  For some were very much devoted to her, and to them she gives letters of pure grace, by which she COMMANDS, that glory be given to them without any pain of purgatory:  others were miserable sinners, and not devoted to her, and to them she gives letters of simple justice, by which she COMMANDS that condign vengeance be done upon them; others were lukewarm and remiss in devotion, and to them she gives letters of justice and grace, by which {375} she COMMANDS that grace be given to them, and yet, on account of their negligence and sloth, some pain of purgatory be also inflicted on them.” [Part xii.  Serm. ii.  On the twenty-second excellence, p. 825.]

The only remaining author, to whom I will at present refer you, is a canonized saint, Bernardinus Senensis.  A full account of his life, his miracles, and his enrolment among the saints in heaven, is found in the Acta Sanctorum, vol. v. under the 20th of May, the day especially dedicated to his honour.  Eugenius IV. died before the canonization of Bernardine could be completed:  the next pope, Nicholas V. on Whitsunday 1450, in full conclave, enrolled him among the saints, to the joy, we are told, of all Italy.  In 1461, Pius the Second said that Bernardine was taken for a saint even in his lifetime; and, in 1472, Sixtus IV. issued a bull, in which he extols the saint, and authorizes the translation of his body into a new church, dedicated, as others had been, to his honour.