3. (3) The leaders of the Reformation, Luther, Melanchthon, and Calvin, retained all the dogmas concerning the Trinity of Persons in the Divinity, the origin of sin from Adam, the imputation of Christ's merit, and justification by faith, just as they had been held by the Roman Catholics. But they separated good works from faith, declaring that good works were not at the same time saving, with the purpose of completely severing themselves from the Roman Catholics as to the very essentials of the church, which are faith and charity.