Psalms 74:7

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

Ver. 7. They have cast fire inlo thy sanctuary] Heb. They have sent thy sanctuary into the fire. So the French Papists, under the conduct of the Guises, dealt by the public meeting houses of the Protestants there, and particularly by that church at Lyons which was called Paradise, Hoc apud Ethnicos erat horrendum. The heathens observed of such as destroyed temples that they commonly came to some fearful end, by thunderbolts or otherwise.