This Bernardine is equally explicit with others, in maintaining, that all the blessings which Christians can receive on earth are dispensed by Mary; that her princedom equals the princedom of the Eternal Father; that all are her servants and subjects, who are the subjects and servants of the Most High; that all who adore the Son of God should adore his virgin-mother, and that the Virgin has repaid the Almighty for all that He has done for the human race.  Some of these doctrines were to me quite startling; I was not prepared for them; but I have been assured they find an echo in the pulpits in many parts of the continent.  Very few quotations will suffice. [Opera, per John de la Haye.  Paris, 1636.  Five volumes bound in two.] {376}

“As many creatures do service to the glorious Mary, as do service to the Trinity....  For he who is the Son of God, and of the blessed Virgin, wishing (so to speak) to make, in a manner, the princedom of his mother equal to the princedom of his father, he who was God, served his mother on earth.  Moreover, this is true, all things, even the Virgin, are servants of the divine empire; and again, this is true, all things, even God, are servants of the empire of the Virgin.” [Vol. iv.  Serm. v. c. vi. p. 118.]

“Therefore, all the angelic spirits are the ministers and servants of this glorious Virgin.” [Serm. iii. c. iii. p. 104.]

“To comprise all in a brief sentence, I do not doubt that God made all the liberations and pardons in the Old Testament on account of the reverence and love of this blessed maid, by which God preordained from eternity, that she should be, by predestination, honoured above all his works.  On account of the immense love of the Virgin, as well Christ himself, as the whole most blessed Trinity, frequently grants pardon to the most wicked sinners.” [Serm. v. c. ii. p. 116.]

“By the law of succession, and the right of inheritance, the primacy and kingdom of the whole universe is due to the blessed Virgin.  Nay, when her only Son died on the cross, since He had no one on earth to succeed Him of right, his mother, by the laws of all, succeeded, and by this acquired the principality of all. [Serm. v. c. vii. p. 118.] ...  But, of the monarchy of the universe, Christ never made any testamentary bequest, because that could never be done without prejudice to his mother.  Moreover, HE KNEW THAT A MOTHER CAN ANNUL THE {377} WILL OF HER SON, IF IT BE MADE TO THE PREJUDICE OF HERSELF.” [Insuper noverat quod potest mater irritare Filii testamentum si in sui praejudicium sit confectum.—­P. 118.]