"The true middle path between the two extremes": An Old High sermon during the Tract XC controversy

Another extract from R.W. Jelf's January 1842 sermon, The Via Media: Or, The Church of England our Providential Path between Romanism and Dissent. The contrasts with Newman and Tract XC are stark throughout the sermon.  As Newman was beguiled by Tridentine decrees and papal supremacy, Jelf - in authentic Old High fashion - rejoices in the gift of the Reformed Catholic identity of Anglicanism, adhering to the Primitive mean against both Roman additions and Dissenting deficiencies: 

Must we wander also with one or the other to the right hand or to the left, or alternately with each? God be praised! we have no excuse for doing so - the Church, in which it has been our blessed privilege to be born and baptized, has been led by God's grace and mercy to take the true middle path between the two extremes. She has avoided the superstitious and vain additions of the one, without countenancing the wilful deficiencies of the other. She unites in herself, what is true in God's word, with what is traced in God's dealings with His Church; she is equally Scriptural and primitive; and this union must be the characteristic of God's Church, because what the Apostles wrote, they and their successors must have taught and practised. The Primitive Apostolic Church could not but hold the Apostles' doctrine as well as their fellowship; and our Church, in setting before her that primitive model, together with the written oracles of God as her supreme guide, has taken the only reasonable course for arriving at the truth.