1645 Pref. sig. A iij Their pernicious, God-provoking, Truth-defacing, Church-ruinating, and State-shaking toleration.
1672 T. Gale Contents sig. []4v Unbelief a Church-ruinating Sin.
1997 I. Kramnick & R. L. Moore iii. 52 People attacked [Roger] Williams as a radical, a ‘church-ruinating’ anarchist.