John Trapp on John 1:6

Verſe 6. There was a man ſent from God.] As he ran not, till ſent, Jer. 23.32. (St. Paul holds it not only for incredible, but for impoſſible, that men ſhould preach that are not ſent, Rom. 10.15.) [non-Latin text not transcribed]. So he declined not his Embaſſage, as did Jonas; who was therefore met with by another meſſenger of God, and ſent into the Whales belly, to make his Sermon for Nineveh; and in his prayer before, Ion. 2.8. to acknowledge out of ſad experience, that they that hunt after lying vanities (as he had done) forſake their own mercies.