BE 19, 21, 24 - the Roman Catholics and the Reformed

BE 19, 21, 24

The Roman Catholics, before the Reformation,
taught exactly the same things
as the Reformed did after it,
. . . namely, a Trinity of Persons in the Divinity,
original sin,
the imputation of the merit of Christ,
and justification by faith therein,
only with this difference,
that they conjoined that faith
with charity or good works.

The leading reformers, Luther, Melancthon, and Calvin,
retained all the dogmas concerning
a Trinity of Persons in the Divinity,
original sin,
imputation of the merit of Christ,
and justification by faith,
just as they were and had been with the Roman Catholics;
but they separated charity or good works from that faith,
and declared that they were not at the same time saving,
with a view to be totally severed from the Roman Catholics
as to the very essentials of the church,
which are faith and charity.

Nevertheless the leading reformers 
adjoined good works,
and also conjoined them, to their faith,
but in man as a passive subject:
whereas the Roman Catholics
conjoin them in man as an active subject;
and that notwithstanding this,
there is actually a conformity
between the one and the other
as to faith, works, and merits.

(BE - A Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church)