Christ's Works - Ground of Believer's Title to Life...

"The inability of the law, therefore, to afford eternal life now, arises merely from the sinner's inability, to afford that perfect obedience, which it originally required, and still requires as the ground of a title to life. If sin had not been committed, the law as a covenant of works, could have still conducted men to that everlasting life, which Christ the last Adam, confers upon his children."

John Colquhoun, Treatise of the Covenant of Works. p. 76