John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 2:3

Verſ. 3. Yet acquainting my heart with wiſdome] i. e. reſolving to retain my wiſdome; but that could not be: For whoredome, and wine, Hoſ. 4.11. and new wine take away the heart; they dull and diſable nature, and ſo ſet us in a greater diſtance from grace; they fight againſt the ſoul, 1 Pet. 2.12 Ariſt. de mirah. auſcul. lib. 8. and take away all ſent and ſenſe of heavenly comforts; Much like that parcel of ground in Sicily, that ſendeth ſuch a ſtrong ſmell of fragrant flowers to all the fields thereabouts, that no Hound can hunt there. And here I beleeve began Solomons Apoſtaſie, his laying the reigns in the neck to purſue ſinful pleaſures, pleaſing himſelf in a conceit, that he could ſerve God and his luſts too. A Chriſtian hath ever God for his chief end; and never ſins with deliberation about this end; he will not forgo God upon any terms; only he erres in the way, thinking he may fulfill ſuch a luſt, and keep God too: But God and ſin cannot cohabit; and Gods graces groaning under our abuſes in this kind, cry unto him for help, who gives them thereupon (as he did to the wronged Church, Rev. 12.14.) the wings of an Eagle: after which, one luſt calls upon another, as they once did upon their fellow-ſouldiers, Now Moab to the ſpoyl, till the heart be filled with as many corruptions, as Solomon had Concubines.