André Rivet

If God disapproved that men on earth constituted a King for themselves, without consulting him: what will he say of the worms of the earth, who without an oracle from God, constitute a Queen of heaven, and erect for her a throne of majesty, without asking at the mouth of God?

Is there any Queen of heaven constituted by God? It is denied. That name was taken from the ancient idolaters, and applied to the virgin Mary by the new ones.

We acknowledge the Blessed virgin to be the most excellent member of this spouse; and that, in this sense, she reigns with Christ, and with all the faithful. But that Christ administers his kingdom through her, as through the Queen of heaven, or that he has constituted her to have Dominion over all creatures with Royal power, since this is not proved from scripture; but is only fashioned by the most audacious men, she will never receive it; … nor can we defer it to her.

I hear again a Jesuit crying out, "You, Mother of God, CAN DO ALL THINGS in heaven and on earth." But I believe Christ, saying, (Matt. 28:18.) "All power is given to me in heaven and on earth." If he had said the same of his mother, we would have given faith to him: which we rightly withdraw from those who, without God's authority, crown a Queen, not only for themselves, but to rule over all creatures.

These men had constituted a Queen in heaven, not from God: they also offered her cakes and drink offerings. … Those Arab women imitated this custom, against whom and their followers Epiphanius writes, who in Christianity were the first to apply the name Queen of heaven to the Blessed virgin, and offered cakes to her, as the idolatrous Jews did to their queen of heaven.