Writings
Parker was pre-eminently a preacher, and his published works are chiefly sermons and expositions. Among them are:
- Ecce Deus: Essays on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ (1868)
- City Temple Sermons (1869–1870)
- Ecce Homo: The Paraclete (1874)
- The Inner Life of Christ (1881)
- Apostolic Life (1884)
- The People's Bible, in 25 vols (1885–1895)
- People's Prayer Book (1898)
- Paterson's Parish (1898)
- Christian Profiles in a Pagan Mirror (1898)
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