The _continuance_ of tropes, called an allegory, is, when one kind of trope is so continued, as, look with what kind of matter it be begun, with the same it be ended. So in Psalm xxiii. _the care of God towards his church_ is set forth in the words proper to _a shepherd_. So in the whole book of Canticles, _the sweet conference of Christ and his church_, is set down by the words proper to _the husband and the wife_. So old age is set down by this garnishing of speech, in Ecclesiastes xii. 5, 6. Hitherto of the properties of a fine manner of words, called a trope. Now the divers sorts do follow. They are those which note out, 1, no comparison, or are with some comparison; or, 2, no respect of division, or some respect. The first is double: 1. The change of name, called a _metonymy_. 2. The mocking speech, called an _irony_. The change of name is where the name of a thing is put for the name of a thing agreeing with it. It is double: 1. When the cause is put for the thing caused; and contrarywise. 2. When the thing to which anything is adjoined, is put for the thing adjoined; and contrarywise. The change of name of the cause is when either the name of the _maker_, or the name of the _matter_, is put for the _thing made_. Of the _maker_, when the finder out, or the author of the thing, or the instrument whereby the thing is done, is put for the _thing made_. So Moses is put for his writings: so love is put for liberality, or bestowing benefits, the fruit of love; so (Rom. i. 8): faith, the cause, is put for religious serving of God, the thing caused. So (James iii.) the tongue, the instrument of speech, is put for the speech itself. _Rule thy tongue._ Of the _matter_: _Thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return_; that is, _one made of dust_. Now, on the other side, when the thing caused, or the effect, is put for any of these causes. So _the Gospel of God_ is called _the power of God to salvation_; that is, the instrument of the power of God. So _love_ is said to be _bountiful_, because it causeth one to be bountiful. St. Paul saith, _The bread that we break, is it not in the communion of the body and blood of Christ?_ That is, an instrument of the communion of the body of Christ. So _the body_ is said to be an _earthly tabernacle_; that is, a tabernacle made of earth.