On Saint Stephen stoned

Some men are beaten to this world; but here's
One that was battered to the heavenly spheares,
Whose prayers (faster than the stones did fly)
Vollyed for entrance to the opening sky.
Nor did poore halfe-dead Isaac more rejoyce
To see the Ramme, and heare the Angels voyce,
Than Stephen did to see the Lambe (once slaine
For our sins guilt) with his triumphant traine:
Well might he joy, that was within a small
Stones cast of Heaven; whence treasured blessings fall.