Thus, I think, it is evident that this "sentence" has nothing to do with the passage of Jeremiah to which the editor refers us; and its being read continually in the church explains the application of the word "common" to it in this place.
While on this subject I would go on to mention that both Chillingworth and Taylor seemed to have erred in calling it a paraphrase, and saying that it does not occur in the Bible; for according to L'Estrange (c. iii. n. F.) the sentence is taken from the Great Bible, or Coverdale's translation. It is, however, remarkable that this fact should not have been known to these divines.
F. A.
PARALLEL PASSAGES.
I send you two parallels on the subject of Death and Sleep, Nature the art of God, &c.
"How wonderful is death—
Death and his brother sleep!"
Shelley, Queen Mab.
"Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes."
Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia.