3. The leading Reformers, Luther, Melancthon, and Calvin, retained all the dogmas concerning a Trinity of Persons in the Divinity, the origin of sin from Adam, the imputation of the merit of Christ, and justification by faith alone, as they had been held by the Roman Catholics; but in order that they might be totally severed from the Roman Catholics as to the very essentials of the church, which are faith and charity, they separated good works from faith, and declared that they were not at the same time saving. [Brief Exposition, n. 21.]