Ancient, scriptural, Catholic

From the author's Preface to the Eleventh Edition (1878) of E.H. Browne's (Norrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge 1854-64, Bishop of Ely 1864-73, Bishop of Winchester 1873-90) An Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles - a confident summary of the High Church tradition, amidst the controversies provoked by Ritualism, emerging liberal theology, and Low Church neo-Puritanism:

I have seen no reason to depart from the ancient, scriptural, Catholic faith of the English Church. I have seen no ground for accepting mediæval accretions, nor for doubting the soundness of primitive belief.