This an old translation of a latin text so it is hard to read. However, it has good ideas about the ultimate purpose of Man.
Nor was it becoming God to form a rational creature for any other purpose than his own glory; which such a creature, unless wise and holy, could neither perceive nor celebrate, as shining forth in the other works of God; destitute of this light, and deprived of the endument, what could it prove but the reproach of his Creator, and every way unfit to answer the end of his creation. All these particulars the wisest of kings, Eccles. vii. 29. has thrown together with a striking simplicity, when he says; “Lo! This only have I found, that God hath made man upright.”
pp. 51-52, The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man, Volume 1, Herman Witsius.
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