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The text I need help translating is:
In hoc loco, quia catena actuum divinorum sibi mutuo succedentium in procuratione salutis hominum nectitur talis, quae ab absoluto decreto originem ducere videtur, hinc est, quod eo veluti triario milite & principali ac nervoso, prout loquuntur, loco, vti solent ad hanc suam Thesini stabiliendum.
I have two questions:
Thanks so much!
After looking at the context, this is obviously part of a much wider explanation. It begins in hoc loco, referring to the particular biblical quotation (from Romans 9, vv. x, xi), though the connection is a bit hazy to my mind. The sense is somewhat obscured by the unnecessarily flowery language, but is something like:
'In this (verse), since such a series of divinely inspired actions following one after another, apparently based on an absolute promise, is connected with managing the wellbeing of men; hence, because in that (verse), just like they say, just as they are accustomed to use a third-rank soldier as [if he were] both a first ranker and a keen one, [it is suitable] for supporting this, their own proposition.'
The phrase hinc est quod eo veluti indicates a justification for what follows. Thesis (a feminine noun) is, as @brianpck says, a borrowing from Greek to mean something like 'proposition'.
