I don't want to seem more sure than I am, but it seems to me as if this passage is simply refering in a poetic parallelism--a triad really--to the will of God. "Laws," "statutes," "covenant"--the three together indicate the total expression of the will of God.

In this case, according to Alexander, we see that if Israel, the people of God, be judged severely for their violations of all these things specially, all the more should not the rest of the nations of the whole earth be brought to the same bar of holy justice?

If a general reference not be accaptable, then we are left with proposing the Covenant of Works as a specific arrangement. The problem I see with that suggestion is that the CoW is improperly referenced then as an "everlasting" or "eternal" covenant.

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