By a just and due remembrance of the nature of their sin, its circumstances and aggravations, the shameful unkindness towards God that was in it, the grief of the Holy Spirit, and the dishonor of Christ by it, it will incline and dispose the soul to a humble, contrite frame, to a mournful walking, and the universal exercise of repentance all its days...Repentance is necessary for those who have given scandal and offense by their miscarriages; this will stick very close to anyone who has the least spark of saving faith. It is what God is particularly provoked by in the sins of his people; as in the case of David, 2Sam 12:14.67 So also Eze 36:20; Rom 2:24.68 This keeps alive the remembrance of sin, and sets it before men continually; it is a spring, in a gracious soul, of all acts and duties of repentance. It was so in David all his days; and probably in Mary Magdalene also. Where it has been this way with anyone, faith will keep the soul in a humble and contrite frame, watchful against pride, elation of mind, carelessness, and sloth. It will recover godly sorrow and shame, with revenge, or self-reflection, in great abasement of mind, all of which belong to the state of repentance intended. Those who can easily shake off a sense of scandal given by them, have very little of Christian ingenuousness in their minds.

~ John Owen