Thomas Binney goes against the grain of the first three in this series (tag hymnline below) in that he wrote very few hymns, though he was a prolific writer. None he wrote are really sung much any more either, but one that should be - perhaps the only one - is Eternal Light.
The whole hymn is amazing poetry, but Binney excels himself and perhaps nearly all other hymnwriters when he describes the answer to the question of how (sinful) human beings can hope to reach, or even live, in God's eternal light . . .
An offering and a sacrifice, a Holy Spirit's energies, an Advocate with God.
Rarely has anyone captured so succinctly so many of the riches of the Gospel, for which we truly owe God our song.
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